The desire to have a thirty trillion limitless economy by the year 2047, enshrined in the Viksit Bharat vision, requires a paradigm shift in the planning of urban practices. However, urban development in India is, at present, largely land-use based in its orientation, giving more prominence to zoning and physical infrastructure but, in large measure, disregarding the more socio-economic, environmental, and technological aspects of contemporary urbanization. Such a vision is becoming inadequate with the dynamically surging urbanization, climatic susceptibility, and the emerging requirements of a knowledge-based economy. As time series of projections suggest, cities will house most of the population and the economic activity in India by the middle of the century, thus requiring the cities to be transformed from being passive receivers of urban growth to active contributors to national change.