You see it in the physical infrastructure: all those new flyovers sprouting up around the city to enable the chauffeur driven classes to get about more easily, even while the commuter trains are still bursting; the crowded, chaotic public hospitals that get by while gleaming new private hospitals open up.
It has also been manipulated by corporate interests, who have a financial stake in steering transport planning towards large lucrative projects such as flyovers.
More than 60 flyovers have been built since the late 1990s, despite similar schemes being deemed failures in many other cities.
When you zip over the undulating flyovers of mid-town Mumbai, you pass the last of the chawls – low-income housing for the millworkers of Mumbai, built in a time when the city's was a productive economy rather than a speculative one.
But constructing road bridges, flyovers or tunnels on virgin railways poses a different challenge from trying to reconcile the flat East Anglian landscape and its old market towns with the desire for faster trains.
There are 700,000 cars on the road and the authorities indirectly encourage private vehicle ownership by adding flyovers and expressways, instead of building or speeding up mass rapid transit systems.
And if major infrastructure projects - flyovers, the famous sea link, the Metro rail and monorail projects – have been launched, pedestrian infrastructure has largely been overlooked.
Big road-building projects are at last under way, many under China's eye; flyovers should ease the jams in central Nairobi in a year or so.Kenya's mobile-phone penetration is the highest in the region, at 80% for people over 15.
The road south to Amara and Basra is littered with half-built flyovers, seemingly never to be finished.
Next on the list is a rapid bus transport system, more flyovers and a Bollywood theme park modelled on Disneyland.
Instead she claims Delhi's voters will credit her with impressive economic growth along with dramatic improvements to public infrastructure under her rule: the city has (mostly) reliable supplies of electricity, access to a world-class metro, 47 road flyovers, a fleet of buses that has grown from 400 to 6,000.
