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Dijital dönüşüm hizmetleri, yerel yönetimlerin akıllı şehirler haline gelmesini sağlamaktadır. Çalışma kapsamında Türkiye’de yapı sektöründe dijital dönüşüm uygulamaları 9 yerel yönetim üzerinden incelenmiştir. Her bölgeden bir il en yüksek gelişmişlik düzeyine göre seçilmiştir. İstanbul ve Ankara şehirleri dijital dönüşümde ilk uygulama alanlarından oldukları için ayrı analiz edilmiştir. Yapı sektöründe dijital dönüşüm denildiğinde akla gelen akıllı şehir bileşenleri illerin karşılaştırılma analizinde kullanılmıştır. Seçilen büyükşehir belediyelerinin 2020-2024 yıllarını kapsayan stratejik planları, 2022 senesine ait faaliyet raporları, belediyelere ait web siteleri, akıllı şehir uygulamaları incelenerek, Çevre, Şehircilik ve İklim Değişikliği Bakanlığı tarafından yayınlanan “2020-2023 Ulusal Akıllı Şehirler Stratejisi ve Eylem Planı’nda yer alan Akıllı Şehir Bileşenleri üzerinden analiz edilmiştir. Ayrıca belediyeler akıllı şehir bileşenlerine örnek teşkil eden uygulamalara göre karşılaştırılmıştır. Seçilen şehirlerden İstanbul, Bursa, Ankara ve Antalya şehirlerinin akıllı şehir bileşenlerinin çoğunu kullandığı tespit edilmiştir. Çalışmanın yapılma amacı belediyelerin akıllı şehir ve dijital dönüşüm kavramına ait politikalarını belirlemektir. Belediyelerin akıllı şehir uygulamaları tablolaştırılıp hangi alanlarda çalışmaları olduğu tespit edilmeye çalışılmıştır. Böylelikle yapılan bu çalışma başarılı uygulamaların yapıldığı şehirlerimizdeki çalışmaların geliştirilmesine uygulamanın olmadığı şehirlerimizi ise teşvik edip, bu şehirlerimize örnek niteliği taşımaktadır.

The fractures in gender preferences and the increase in the number of gender preference categories in world societies have deeply affected the basic approaches of public space designers and digital system designers. By now, single-sex has become the default design or coding setting in most robotic algorithms and smart city designs and systems. When we look at it from the perspective of urban sociology, which is the collective reflection of individual human psychology in urban areas, we see traces of it in both the digital infrastructure, macrostructures, and megastructure designs of smart cities. Especially in the film industry after 2000, the perception of gender either refers to free gender values or idealizes a unisex structure. Such things in the cities of the future offer designers an extremely practical solution in system designs and public space designs. We need to demonstrate that such designs are extremely constructive developments in preventing social and sexual violence. In our study, we will focus on the contribution of artificial algorithms, system designs, and space designs to social consensus in the digital infrastructure of smart cities of the future. The parameters of this contribution will be discussed from the perspective of urban sociology in terms of the sustainability of future cities.

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Nowadays, smart cities solutions have been becoming popular day by day. The problem of finding a parking place is one of these implementations. Our study appeals to users who want to park their vehicle quickly and who want to find out whether the parking place is available to park before searching for a parking place. This application aims to find a solution to the problem of searching for a place to park. We have found a novel solution to this problem by using image processing methods and utilizing photographs of streetside parking places in the most effective way. In addition, an Android software has been developed through which we can deliver the results obtained with the image processing module to users via a mobile application. As a result, a parking IoT determination system has been implemented in this study with 92% accuracy value. Thanks to this system, vehicle owners who want to park their vehicles on the side of the street will be able to learn whether the parking places in a street are available in advance and they will be able to save their time by preferring more available streets.

Smart cities have started to become widespread with the development of today's technology. Smart cities are basically smart economy, smart environment, smart governance, smart transportation, smart people and smart life components. In the absence of one of the basic components, it is not possible to talk about smart cities. The successful implementation of smart cities also depends on the approaches of the city dwellers towards smart city applications. Studies on smart cities in the literature mainly reveal the applications of smart cities selected as samples. This study, on the other hand, aims to develop a social scale based on the approaches of urban residents towards smart city applications. A 5-point Likert-type questionnaire was obtained by creating an item pool for each of the smart city components (factors). In the study, analyzes were made with the data obtained from a total of 844 people residing in the Çankaya district of Ankara, over the age of 18 and using a smart phone. Analysis findings: It has been shown that the scale is a measurement tool with 26 items and 6 factors with structural validity and reliability. It is expected that the number of items eliminated in scale development studies is nearly half of all items. As a result, it has been found that the scale of smart city applications is perfectly reliable, the smart transportation factor is very reliable, the smart human factor, smart life factor, smart economy factor, smart environment factor is good, and the smart governance factor is generally accepted as reliable measurement tools. According to the item analyzes made with the factors, it was seen that there was no need to exclude any item from the scale in terms of reliability and the item-total correlations were above 0.7. When the scale items were examined, it was understood that all of them had statistically significant coefficients and were of sufficient size. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Topological structure and waiting times of vehicles at the intersection are shown as common causes of traffic congestion. Since the improvements in the topological structure can be realized as a result of long and costly projects, intersection signaling applications become an indispensable application area of smart cities. In intersection signaling applications, phase sequence and duration are calculated to ensure the maximum flow of vehicles per unit time, on the basis of intersection or throughout the network. Junction signaling optimization is a real-time realworld problem that is affected by many variable data. Therefore, many studies are still being carried out to develop the most efficient signaling method. In this study, an approach that optimizes the order and duration of the green phase is proposed to reduce the waiting times at the junction points across the network. This approach has been developed by transferring real-time vehicle data to the SUMO simulator according to the exact scale of city intersections on the real-world map. A new signaling approach named GDRL is proposed by combining graphbased phase duration and Deep Reinforcement Learning-based phase sequence estimation. In this approach, the phase sequence is calculated by the DRL method. The phase duration is calculated based on the maximum flowfinding method of the Ford-Fulkerson algorithm. The GDRL approach has been tested in the SUMO simulator by running parallel on consecutive intersections on the real map and using real data. It has been observed that the GDRL approach efficiently solves traffic congestion by reducing the queue length at intersections by 44%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In our cities, which are constantly changing and developing, sustainable development models should be implemented in order to combat urban challenges such as rapid urbanization, migration, disasters, epidemics etc. Urban transformation applications, which came to the agenda with the Law No. 6306, are among the methods of struggling with difficulties. In order to construct and discuss the relationship between urban transformation application areas and smart city strategies, Esenler District, which came to the fore with its unplanned construction and property problems, was chosen as the study area. Analytical hierarchy process was used to measure the smartness potential of Esenler District, one of the largest districts in the Istanbul metropolitan area. In the workshops and interviews held within the scope of the study, the problem areas and important concepts related to smart cities determined by the experts have made a great contribution to the measurement of the smartness potential of Esenler District. The current situation of Esenler District, which has taken the first and major step towards reaching smart cities in Turkey, has been revealed and it has been evaluated whether the district has sufficient infrastructure for smart transformation. When the radar chart created as a result of the study is examined, it is seen that the smart governance component received the highest score with 2.72 points. The smart life component is 2.40, the smart environment component is 2.24, the smart economy component is 2.04, the smart people component is 1.90 and the smart mobility component is 1.88 points outs of 5.00 points. In this study, the reproduction of the areas, with smart solutions in Esenler, is discussed and the positive and negative aspects of the project planned to be implemented are revealed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Purpose: The importance of digital Smart City (SC) applications in the productive and effective fulfillment of city services has begun to increase. The aim of this study is calculating the weighted and unweighted urban digitalization indexes (UDI) values and ranking the cities based on these values.Methodology: Indicators, critical success factors (CSF), and dimensions affecting the digital transformation (DT) of cities were determined through literature review, surveys, and interviews. Urban Digitalization Maps (UDM) were prepared and UDI values were calculated with the help of the areas on these maps. The cities have been ranked according to calculated UDI values. In the research, the relevant indicator values were collected from city institutions to measure CSF rates with city data. In these measurements, the Satyam UDI Calculation technique was used to calculate UDIs, and the Categorical Value Selection technique was used to calculate indicator weight-percentages.Findings: In the resulting ranking table, it was seen that each province had different UDIs.UDI rankings and UDMs can enable administrators to take the necessary decisions in determining new SC policies and strategies, and thus use city resources more effectively and productively. As a result, since the DT of cities is not only a technological and temporary transformation, but an intergenerational transformation, it has been proposed to digitalize city services according to the Z-Generation.Originality: This study is the first to measure the level of digital transformation of 81 provinces in Türkiye.

The population in urban spaces in the world is increasing gradually and this increase brings some problems with it. New concepts have emerged for cities to find solutions to these problems, to increase the quality of life and to create sustainable cities. This concept, which emerged with problems such as the growth of cities and urban population, urban infrastructure problems, environmental problems, and climate change, is the concept of "smart city". The concept of smart city is especially important with the gaining importance of transportation, energy consumption, sustainability, and recycling concepts. Smart cities have many components such as transportation, economy, people, governance, environment, and life etc. One of the most important components is "smart waste management". With the recycling of wastes, which is one of the most important problems of cities, smart city applications have been established without harming people and the environment. In this article, the concept of smart city and its components, definition and comparison of current and smart waste management has been made. National and international smart waste management systems and practices, which include the protection of environmental quality, the collection and recycling of waste at its source, have been examined and the smart waste management has been evaluated in terms of landscape architecture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Increasing population pressure on urban settlements with industrialization has revealed environmental problems. At the end of the twentieth century, the international community's awareness of environmental problems resulted in some measures being taken. Currently the problem of climate change and global warming is on the agenda as the main environmental problem. In this process, urban settlements were accepted as the first step of both development and environmental problems. The developments in information and communication technologies forced the city administration to change and revealed the smart city. "smart environment", one of the smart city components, is accepted as a guide in eliminating environmental problems. While cities were trying to stand out as a global city, they also faced smart city and smart environment transformations. The aim of our study; To analyze the concept of smart city and smart environment in terms of theory and practice. Within the scope of the study, the literature was examined in detail and included in the bibliography. The main finding of study is that there is an increasing smart transformation process in cities with the effect of Covid-19. In terms of application, our finding is that smart technologies are used intensively to prevent air and water pollution in İzmir in terms of smart environmental applications. As a result of our study, the idea that smart environmental applications should be seen as the last opportunity to solve environmental problems is highlighted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Purpose - This study sought to settle the question, "How can smart city strategies contribute to improving the urban quality of life?". Methodology/Approach/Design - Sakarya Metropolitan Municipality (SMM) was found worthy of this single case study since it has become the very first to prepare a smart city strategy and action plan among local governments in Turkey. In addition to face-to-face interviews with 23 personnel holding various positions within SMM, the municipality's strategic plan (SASEP) and official news bulletin (Gündüz-Gece) were subjected to content analysis. During this field research, the observation notes were utilized to interpret the findings of the content analysis. Findings - The findings revealed that SMM adopts a data-driven smart city strategy. It was also discovered that, thanks to this strategy, SMM provided an improvement primarily in the objective quality of life indicators of the city, particularly visible in smart city indicators such as infrastructure, transportation, environment, and governance. Originality/Value - Based on the extensive literature review and empirical findings, the concept "smart city" was brought a definition as "a city management strategy that addresses the internal dynamics of the city and makes use of technological developments, various data sources, and the knowledge obtained by deploying an appropriate process to improve the quality of life of its stakeholders in line with the priorities". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Consumers aspire to co-create value with good and service providers in order to have experiences in line with their wishes and expectations. Destinations are getting smarter with the advances in technology that contributes to the co-creation of value by tourists. In this article, the effect of the smart city concept on the co-creation process of tourists was studied. Accordingly, the concept of value was examined; the questions of how customer value is created in the tourism industry and how co-creation takes place were addressed. In this study, secondary sources were used extensively, and document analysis was applied. Moreover, the concepts of smart city and smart destination were examined and the contributions of the smart city application to the value creation process of the customers were evaluated. The study exposes that smart destinations positively affect the co-creation of value by tourists and provide them with different and unforgettable experiences. On the other hand, it points out that co-creation of value is important for destinations to achieve sustainable success and provide competitive advantage. In this study some examples were presented to destination managers and marketers to co-create value by using innovative technologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Accessibility is a right guaranteed by the constitution and supranational documents for all, regardless of socio-economic status, disability and cultural status. Accessibility is a complex process depending on legal, administrative, social, financial and, most importantly, spatial interventions for right locations, stakeholders, at the right time. This research investigates accessibility interventions for the right locations. Ffirst of all, having information about the level of current barriers and where concentration of barriers intensify allows time, financial resources and labor to be directed correctly. In this context, a conceptual relationship was established between geographic information systems, one of the most important components of the smart city, and accessibility, and the spatial reflection of this relationship was carried out through the location-based accessibility spatial database through four selected areas in Ankara. Spatial data and photographs were obtained on a central sampling line of Bahçelievler, Beştepe, Söğütözü, and Atatürk Boulevard, via geographic information systems software. Graphs, tables and mappings that reveal the current accessibility situation were produced by synthesizing them under five parameters, namely public transportation and parks. Findings from the field have revealed the importance of creating a spatial database that will contribute to social development and the formation of a more inclusive social structure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Internet of Things (IoT) are internet-based systems that provide solutions to people's problems that enable communication of objects and decision-making skills without human intervention by using new technologies and devices. Internet of Things solutions play an active role in raising people's comfort, reliability, mobility, health and well-being. Big data generated from IoT solutions with complex and demanding applications can contain heterogeneous datasets with different and multiple sources. Data and sensor fusion processes are of great importance in technological solutions using sensor technologies. It is critical and very important to be able to perform operations such as reducing data size, optimizing data traffic density, and extracting useful information from raw data. In this context, it is aimed to correct problematic data, increase data reliability and protect data integrity in the data fusion process. Identifying the most common data fusion challenges in IoT solutions using smart systems and presenting possible solution approaches highlights the unique aspect of our work. In this study, current literature studies are examined in detail, data types, fusion levels, methods used and results obtained in IoT solutions applied in smart cities are presented in tabular form. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Cities, where smart city technologies are not a goal, but are evaluated as a useful tool to ensure urban sustainability, are guides for other cities. This study aims to examine the environmental, social and economic sustainability in smart cities in the case of Copenhagen, which is at the top of the smart city indexes. According to the findings, in Copenhagen, smart solutions such as integrated transportation system, wind energy and waste management has provided many socio-economic and environmental benefits such as decrease in air pollution, decrease in flood risk, decrease in noise, less pressure on non-renewable sources, development of faster, safer, healthier, cheaper and less stressful transportation opportunities, strengthening green economy, revival of the business world and the market. Copenhagen with its innovative, holistic and long-term practices, is a good example for other cities, which seeks to balance socio-economic and environmental sustainability.

This study's starting point is that urban policies made on certain averages do not lead to the desired results, so policies that take different sides of the city into account are considered fundamental. In this context, the focus of the study is children, who are an essential part of the city. It is known that various rights-based efforts have been made to support the argument. On the other hand, the reflection of technological developments in the urban area brings new opportunities for children. Within the framework of the statements, the study aims to scrutinize the smart city, which has been responded as an approach with the impact of technological developments, with a child-oriented focus. With this research, attention is drawn to children who are ignored in smart city studies, it is expected to contribute to the void in the literature regarding the concept of childfriendly smart city and to start new discussions. This study reveals that smart city applications that both an extension of the physical space and only in the digital environment in different subjects of the city makes more understandable, livable and contributory for children. Therefore, it is deemed necessary to give special to children in smart city studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study aims to analyze the smart city perception and vision in Turkey through the in-house organizations and policy documents of both central and local governments. In the study, in-house organizations and current strategic plans of 30 metropolitan municipalities were examined, as well as the institutions and upper policy documents affiliated to the Presidency, which constitute a reference in coordination and policy documents in the organization in smart city policies. In the study, the strategic plans of local governments are evaluated in a way that compares with the dimensions of the smart economy, smart transportation, smart environment, smart people, smart life, and smart governance in which content analysis, one of the qualitative research methods of social sciences, was applied. With the 'word trees' created through the NVivo program, a qualitative data analysis software, the context, and frequency of use of the words smart, technology, and digital in the plans of local governments were analyzed. With the analyzes made and the findings obtained in the study, it has been determined that the upper policy documents are effective in determining the smart city strategies of local governments, and accordingly, almost all local governments have a strategy in the field of smart mobility. The areas of smart economy and smart management were the least discussed in local government plans. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As a result of cities' adverse effects on environmental sustainability, smart city applications have become a necessity. The integration of citizens into smart city applications through mobile applications depends on their adoption. This study aims to analyze the user attitude towards the Izmir Transportation Center application through the technology acceptance model. The user comments were analyzed via Maxqda software by using the content analysis method. The results indicate that user attitude towards the application is negative. Perceived usefulness has more effect on user attitude and the main problem of the application is system accessibility and running with incomplete data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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SARS-Cov-2 / Covid-19, which entered our lives in the last months of 2019 in Wuhan, China, is an epidemic that can be contagious and can result in death. As of the end of April 2021, the Covid-19 pandemic, which has seen more than 143 million confirmed Covid-19 cases in total and caused more than 3 million people to die, has affected the whole world. "Covid-19 Pandemic" affects and even threatens social life and economic processes as well as health. It is of great importance to seek solutions and to maintain an effective struggle in order to protect against the epidemic and its effects, to combat the epidemic and to prevent damage to social life and economic opportunities due to the epidemic. Although the Covid-19 Pandemic has impacts in almost every field, this study deals with social and economic impacts. In this context, this study, the socio-economic outcomes of the pandemic process cause changes in social life, how and in what direction it affects, and an assessment is made on the effective solutions that smart city applications have produced in combating the Covid-19 pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the 'New World' design, speed and efficiency are seen as priority concepts. In this study, a mobile application with these qualities, focused on Istanbul tourism, is discussed from the perspective of the police. The initial interface of the Tourism Security Mobile Application, which is available on IOS and Android-based operating systems, contains the location and contact information of consulates and embassies, hospitals, police stations and tourism police points. The application was developed by the police for the use of complaints, notices and assistance by those who are in Istanbul for tourist purposes and it was aimed to shorten the time to reach the police. In this study, which was carried out with the qualitative research method, the activities for practice are classified under the headings of "production motivation, content and contribution" and the communicative processes of the police are explained. This innovation project is the first among world cities. The six-month period data between 07 December 2019-07 June 2020 shows that the application meets the expected efficiency. This original study, which aims to examine an application specific to the metropolis of Istanbul, which is a multi-component metropolis, reveals features that can set an example for other big cities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many pandemic diseases have been fought over the ages due to many reasons such as the way people use their common living spaces with other living things, unhealthy conditions in cities and dwellings and climate changes. After the pandemics, the existing building stocks started to be improved and new buildings started to be produced. The main purpose of this study is; emphasizing the effects of the pandemic on cities and the changes it has created, it is to shed light on the revision of planning and design approaches, especially with the covid-19 pandemic process experienced today. Therefore, with the pandemics, the planning of cities should be more flexible and sustainable. It is thought that most habits will change with this process, which is called the 'new normal'. How much current urban approaches can respond to this 'normal' is a matter of debate. The study presents an evaluation of various practices on the subject in relation to the literature. The results of the study are to examine the spatial use changes caused by the pandemics, especially in cities, and to examine the application areas of discourses such as smart cities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The competitive power of cities that emerged within the context of agglomeration economics is also one of the interesting research topics. In this study, the importance, advantages and disadvantages of urbanization economies will be discussed after analyzing localization economies that strengthen competition by specializing and urbanization economies that strengthen competition by sharing within the scope of static agglomeration economies as the key of competitive cities. Then, where agglomeration economies are going will be explained with examples of cities from Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Develeopment (OECD) countries. In the continuation of the study, the current dilemmas of competitive cities are examined and how agglomeration economies and the competitive power of cities are changing and are investigated with the Covid-19 pandemic. It seems an obvious phenomenon that digitalization will gain speed. At this point, "Contactless Agglomeration" emerges as a new dimension in proximity theories and it will increase rapidly. In the next period, cities will gradually turn into smart cities in order to maintain their competitive power. The Covid-19 pandemic leads cities to create smart working systems. As a result, competitive cities in the global economy will turn today's conditions into an opportunity for change and maintain their competitive power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Smart cities, which emerged as a result of developments in information and communication technologies, aim to facilitate human life and provide sustainable human settlements with various practices. The subject of the study is the relationship between the smart city practices developed by the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM) and the United Nations (UN) 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) aiming to ensure sustainability. The purpose of the study is to interpret the relationship between the 2030 SDGs of smart city practices implemented by IMM at local scale. "Is it possible to establish a relationship between the 2030 SDGs and IMM's smart city practices?" is the question of the study. The assumption of the study is that there is a relationship between the 2030 SDGs and IMM's smart city practices. In the study qualitative research method was used. "Content analysis" was used for the analysis of the data. The study is important in terms of its unique position in the literature since it is the first study in the literature in which smart cities are directly associated with SDGs. As a result of the study, a total of 17 SDGs and 47 smart city practices, 27 of which are mobile developed by IMM, were associated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cities are living organisms that facilitate the interaction between individuals and the global civilization. The journey of humanity within the progression of civilization from neighborhoods to large cities it has established is being shaped by the effect of several factors. While urban life has been realized around the most basic needs such as security and health in the primitive sense, it is encountering much more complicated problems in today’s era and demanding solutions. That is, the concept of security has now expanded to refer to not only lives and property but also new and serious problems involving digital data and cyberattacks. Through digital connections, smart cities will bring a higher quality of life to masses and pave the way for efficiency and accessibility in cities. To achieve the participation of their citizens, smart cities should also provide individual privacy and security. If the citizens are unwilling to participate, the main advantages of a smart city will also disappear. To understand the urban life of the 21st century, it is needed to understand current problems and smart city implementations that are used for the purpose of producing solutions to these problems, the concepts of data, big data and open data that are the material of these implementations, and finally, the concepts of the privacy and security of personal data that are used in smart city implementations. This study investigates the types of data used by smart city implementations and assesses the violation of personal data by taking the boundaries drawn by the Law No. 6698 on the Protection of Personal Data as a reference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Sustainable development is the foundation of economic and social policies for all countries in world. In 2018, 55.3% of the world population lives in cities and this ratio is expected to exceed 75% in 2030. In this context, the growth of cities should be controlled and directed. The cities, without a forward looking city policy, are in desperate straits towards to disasters. The city should be harmonized with the nature meanwhile enhancing the city life quality. Sustainable cities ensure harmony between the men and the nature and prepare the city to disasters while smart cities help to recover cities by means of information communication technologies. Thus, the cities would not be vulnerable against the disasters. In Turkey, instead following a national or sectorial disaster struggle polices, cities emerge as a niche. 1999 Marmara earthquake, the highest loss from a disaster in the history of Turkey, analyzed according to these concepts. The government should transform from fatalistic, curative, reactive to self-confident, protective and pro-active in the framework of sustainable and smart cities in Turkey. It is clear that cities need to be sustainable and smart to be prepared for the disasters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Başakşehir Living Lab (BLL), which is an example of LL's, is the subject of our study. BLL is examined as a structure and operation at the general level within the scope of case study research design. According to the general results of the study, the formation of BLL was carried out in 2011 under the influence of the strong chairman model and in the initiative of the Mayor of Başakşehir. Then, it became active in 2014. The budget of BLL is covered by MM (Metropolitan Municipality) and its management is given annually to the private sector. The opportunities offered by BLL are highlighted in the physical environment, and it is seen that various efforts are being demonstrated. On the other hand, it is observed that there are also reflections outside the BLL settlement area (in and out of the city). In addition, the presence of educational institutions in these cooperation processes is noteworthy. As a result, BLL corresponds to an exemplary embodiment while hosting some problem areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study discusses the potential of biomimicry to encourage innovation in urban design and to provide a general perspective to practitioners, decision-makers, and scientists who shape urban paradigms to rethink the cities of future. This perspective proposes to act as nature, to approach problems as nature, beyond living with nature. Human beings live in the same environmental conditions as living things and face similar difficulties. Biomimicry provides the opportunity to examine life's principles that have been developed and improved by nature with its experience over many years and transfer them to our designs. This study proposes that biomimicry based design will solve many of the problems in today's cities. Further, it suggests that these solutions will increase the efficiency of the cities and enable more sustainable decisions regarding the city. Two main topics have been the focus of the study: reconsidering the concept of efficiency in cities and thinking of the city in a holistic way. After explaining the concept of biomimicry and existing design methods, the study discusses basic principles that can be transferred from nature to urban design. Then, it gives examples from world cities. Consequently, it provides a framework for designing the city like nature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bu çalışma ile akıllı şehirleşmeye katkı sağlayacağı düşünülerek, kaçak enerji kullanımının tespiti, otomatik faturalama ve puant yük talebinin takibi için kullanıcı enerji tüketim verilerinin kablosuz haberleşme ile aktarılması sağlanarak PLC destekli SCADA ile örnek bir laboratuvar uygulaması yapılmıştır. Kaçak enerji kullanımı, arıza tespiti ve hızlı müdahale, uzaktan sayaç okuma ve faturalama, puant yük taleplerinin spesifik şekilde izlenmesi gibi birçok sebep, dağıtım sistemleri için enerji yazılımlarını gerekli kılmaktadır. Bununla birlikte elektrikli araçların kullanımının hızla artışı şehirlerde şarj istasyonlarının varlığını gerekli kılacaktır. Bu durum enerji dağıtım firmaları için tüm şehri kapsayacak bir ağda kompleks topolojilere sahip enerji yazılımlarını zorunlu hale getirecektir. Tüm bu sebeplerle gelecekte akıllı şehirlere geçiş için enerji yönetimi gerekli bir unsur olacaktır.

Dijitalleşen dünyada akıllı uygulamalar hızla etrafımızı sarmakta, insanlığı ileri ufuklara taşımaktadır. Bu kapsamda dünyanın varoluşundan beri süre gelen ve insanlara maddi/manevi ağır zararlar veren afet ve acil durum yönetimi konusunda da bilgi ve iletişim teknolojilerinin kullanımı önemli faydalar sağlayacaktır. Özellikle bu konuda geliştirilebilecek akıllı afet ve acil durum uygulamalarının maddi/manevi getirisi büyük olacaktır. Akıllı afet ve acil durum uygulamaları geliştirmek için büyük veri kaynaklarına ihtiyaç vardır ve bunun kaynağı ise akıllı kentlerdir. Sağlanacak bir kurumlararası işbirliği ile akıllı kent bileşenleri ve mobil cihazlardan gelen veriler, akıllı afet ve acil durum konusunda akıllı uygulamalara dönüştürülecektir. Bu noktada çalışmanın ana teması, “dijitalleşen dünyada afet ve acil durum yönetimi nasıl akıllı hale getirilebilir? Sorusu üzerine kurulmuştur.

The widening of the smart city systems and the growing use of it increases the importance of spatial analysis. Spatial analyzes are used in today's city management in the determination of social needs, determination of current problems and solution proposals. When spatial analyzes are used in conjunction with GIS, the field of application is further developed and supports local governments to respond to the changing demands of society for a better life. GIS provide from the rational use of resources for effective and problem solving. In this context, one of the application areas of spatial analysis used in conjunction with GIS is human-oriented studies related to the city. In this context, one of the application areas of spatial analysis via GIS is human oriented studies related to the city. In this study, spatial analysis was applied to the city of Rize, which is located in the Eastern Black Sea Section of the Black Sea Region by means of GIS. In this study, it was aimed to determine the current situation by means of spatial analysis on the accessibility of the Public Health Centers (ASM, to eliminate the deficiencies and to help the future planning to be formed in a manner that considers the needs of the society. The zoning plan obtained from Rize Municipality for use in the study, the route data received from the Transportation Services Directorate and ©OpenStreetMap, the housing data obtained from the Numaratage Service and the location information of the Family Health Centers provided by Rize Provincial Health Directorate, The population data were obtained from TURKSTAT and data sets were formed. The data were analyzed with ArcGis 10.5 packet program. The network area of the family health centers in Rize has been determined by using the network of transportation networks. As a result of the analysis, the status of accessibility to health facilities has been demonstrated in Rize city according to Family Health Centers (ASM). Based on 500 meters walking distance determined by the legal regulations, 24 of the 46 neighborhoods in the study area have problems in accessing Family Health Centers. When the accessible distance was revised to 1000 meters which was considered acceptable in past studies, it was observed that there were 18 neighborhoods that had problems in accessing these centers. In the current situation, inadequacies about access to health institutions were mentioned in the research area and suggestions were made for its remediation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this study, it is aimed to reveal the position of “Smart Cities” phenomenon in the implementation and restructuring activity of the cities that are handled in the process of global change. Today, the urban project infrastructures of the developed countries are in an important change process regarding the global expectations of the United Nations, and therefore, public accurately projects together with the private sector have brought the Smart Cities phenomenon to current agenda with its social welfare fact. Today, there are approximately 1000 “Smart Cities” examples, which are handled within this framework. This urban change process, where public projects are put together with private partnership models and find application in various models, offers a more effective socio-economic life plane, especially in new urban formations built with this approach. In Turkey, there is no possibility to mention one example as related to being “Smart Cities”, has found application rarely in the “Smart Cities” urban projects. A similar application of this phenomenon in Turkey, although partly for the implementation of foreign projects, more projects are also finding in the local governments appears to be targeted urban renewal projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]