Digital cities transformed into smart cities over years. Developments in information and communication tech-nologies all over the world changed the perception of the “city” tremendously. This transformation broadened the crite-ria of being defined as ‘the smart city’.
It is known that the concept of ‘smart city’ is based on information and communication technologies. In fact smart cities have six components such as smart economy, smart mobility, smart environment, smart people, smart living and smart governance. It is anticipated that all of these components will maintain an equal role in all smart city studies. In other words, applications need to be developed around all components in a balanced way so that a city can be defined as “smart”.
In this study, the concept of smart city and smart city components will be examined and it will be analyzed how smart city components are located in smart city studies for Istanbul city.
Keywords: Technology, Smart Cities, Smart Governance, Components, Istanbul
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