Hiranandani Gardens

This guide to Hiranandani Gardens in Mumbai starts with a wager everyone told Niranjan Hiranandani not to make: two hundred and fifty acres of blasted quarry rubble beside Powai Lake, in a suburb most Mumbaikars ignored. In 1985, he and his brother Surendra struck a deal with the Maharashtra government to build affordable housing on land nobody else wanted, and set about raising a neo-classical township of colonnades and piazzas in its place. Look for the Galleria at its center, an arcade of arched glass and polished stone echoing a famous Milanese original.