Smart CityArun Firodias monograph on urban planning lays out a vision for Smart Cities, putting a much talked about concept into an understandable framework. Pertinently, he focuses on manufacturing cities, the place from where Indias wealth will be generated, and where its people can be employed and their children educated into a society of highly evolved citizens. The plan for a city hides within its fabric a peoples destiny. It tempers their laughter and it