The Operationalizing Aspects of Smart Cities: the Case of Turkey’s Smart Strategies

Smart Cities in Turkey: Approaches, Advances and Applications with Greater Consideration for Future Urban Transport Development

“…There needs to be a lot of progress to create smart transportation initiatives in Turkish cities and it seems that the major problems faced by the cities in adoption of smart systems are lack of quality public transportation, road safety concerns, poor traffic management, lack of modal options and funding, and poor public transportation [103]. Although, a range of civil society activities was recently set up to energize planning, transport, and environmental authorities to develop strategies to promote smart systems, including The CityFix Turkiye, EkoIQ, Wrisehirler, and Embarqturkiye [104][105][106][107][108][109][110], there is still a small body of projects that are concerned with smart transport applications in Turkey [111]. In addition, a few good smart approaches, advances, and applications have been made in current practice, and these initiatives have been implemented by the central government, with public engagement being excluded from evidence, knowledge, debate, and the policy-making developments [112,113].…”

Identifying the results of smart city development: Findings from systematic literature review

“…can observe from Table3is that most of the negative results are related to use of ICT in smart cities. Polarization, digital divide, and inequality can occur in a smart city when the technology is unevenly distributed among regions and citizens(Bilbil, 2017;Caragliu, Del Bo, & Nijkamp, 2011;Klimovsky, Pinteric, & Saparniene, 2016;Neirotti, De Marco, Cagliano, Mangano, & Scorrano, 2014;Rabari & Storper, 2014). Socially marginalized people who have less education and fewer digital skills can be excluded from the benefits of smart cities because they do not know how to use the technology(Mundoli, Unnikrishnan, & Nagendra, 2017;Söderström, Paasche, & Klauser, 2014).…”

An Evaluation of the Smart City Discussions and the Case of Turkey

“…Gürsoy'un (2019), Türkiye'deki büyükşehir belediyelerinin akıllı şehir yaklaşımıyla yürüttükleri çalışmalara ilişkin yaptığı SWOT analizi sonucunda, "temel hedef ve strateji eksikliği, çalışmaların merkezden ve yukarıdan aşağıya yürütüldüğü, kurumlar arası iş birliği ve koordinasyon eksikliği, mevzuat, veri paylaşım sorunları, akademik çalışmaların azlığı, vatandaş odaklılık yerine teknoloji odaklı" olduğu tespit edilmiştir (Gürsoy, 2019, s. 187-199). Tekin Bilbil (2017), akıllı şehir projelerinin sınırlamaları ve kurumsallaşmaları 2006-2010 ve 2015-2018 yıllarını kapsayan iki Bilgi Toplumu Stratejisi üzerinden doküman analizi yöntemiyle analiz etmiştir. Çalışmada, Türkiye'de akıllı şehir projelerinin başarısı için "planlama ve uygulama süreçlerinin birbiri ile koordineli yürütülmesi, ortak proje ve görevler geliştirme bilincinin geliştirilmesi" gerektiği ifade edilmiş, teknik altyapı, yasal altyapı ve insan kaynakları bileşenlerinde performans göstergeleri önerilmiştir.…”