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can change the urban way of life  Smart cities can change the
urban way of life  August 11, 2014 16:42 IST   Thanks to this
year's Budget announcements regarding smart cities, considerable
interest has been generated: What is this concept? How are we
going to take it forward?  The Budget speech itself has a menu
incorporated in it about this, in the sense that it is in the
context of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision of developing
100 smart cities - through creating satellite towns of larger
cities, and by modernising existing mid-sized cities.   Green-
field cities seem to be covered by the reference to a
coordinated development of industrial corridors with smart
cities linked to transport connectivity.  So, what is our
concept of a smart city? Will it be something similar to the
Songdo International Business District coming up on 1,500 acres
of reclaimed land near the Incheon interna