This paper contends that it is New Delhi's grand tradition as a political
center of power that has firmly rooted it into the
spatial landscape. Further, its vast expansion into a major commercial and industrial center within India, coupled with its lack of spatial identity (due to a centralized value on its place in a cultural sense), at once keeps it out of the "traditional" quadrant while placing it into that of the "bazaar city", where it is likely to remain.