Skyscrapers — but no sewage system. Meet a city run by private industry |

Kuni Takahashi/Bloomberg via Getty Images What happens when a city is managed almost completely by private corporations? Visit Gurgaon, India, a boomtown of millions without a citywide system for water, electricity or even public sewers. The city of Gurgaon, roughly a half-hour’s drive south of New Delhi, has survived without a functioning municipal government for roughly four decades.