This dissertation offers an ethnography of urban development in Delhi, told from the perspective of urban transportation planners. This planning perspective entails a network approach to the city: a way of seeing cities as aggregates of human activity. Such a perspective creates an inherent distance from the individual experiences of urban residents, which renders planning vulnerable to critiques of cultural inappropriateness and insensitivity. Recounting the history of Delhi’s first Master Plan, the rise and fall of Delhi’s Bus Rapid Transit corridor, and the work of two Delhi planners working as consultants in a small Himalayan town, this dissertation seeks to complement ethnographies of cities and planning that critique planners and planning for misguided hubris and power plays made at the expense of individuals and communities. What these ethnographies miss – and what ethnography of place, perhaps, misses – is that localized interests and perspectives can be unjust in their own ways, because they don’t consider the effects on neighboring communities ‘down the road’ or the city as a whole.