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and the performance indicators for measuring and evaluating these actions.
Therefore, in this section, instead of presenting the national history of smart
cities, a brief overview of the 2020-2023 NSCSAP is provided, followed by the
relationship between the action plan and urban regeneration, and examples
of current practices that have emerged in the light of this relationship.

2.1. The 2020-2023 National Smart Cities Strategy and Action Plan
(NSCSAP) and its Relationship with Urban Regeneration

In the 2020-2023 NSCSAP, the concept of smart city is defined as “more
livable and sustainable cities which are implemented in cooperation between
stakeholders, and which use new technologies and innovative approaches,
and which are justified based on data and expertise, and produce solutions
that add value to life by anticipating future problems and needs ” ( The
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Turkish Ministry of Environment and Urbanisation, 2019: 20). Within the scope
of this definition, the smart city components are described and divided
into two main groups. The first of these groups is smart city management.
There are 5 main components under this group: (1) governance; (2) strategy
management; (3) policy management; (4) holistic service management; (5)
business management. The other group is smart city practices. There are
totally 16 components under this group: (1) smart environment; (2) smart
security; (3) smart people; (4) smart buildings; (5) smart economy; (6) smart
space management; (7) smart health; (8) smart governance; (9) information
technologies; (10) smart transportation; (11) smart energy; (12) communication
technologies; (13) information security; (14) smart infrastructure; (15) disaster
and emergency management; (16) are geographic information systems.
The vision determined within the scope of the 2020-2023 NSCSAP is
“livable and sustainable cities that add value to life”. Totally 4 strategic goals,
9 targets and 40 actions have been described for the realization of this vision.
Of these actions, 12 were identified as very highly critical, 16 as highly critical
and 12 as moderately critical, and it was stated that these levels should be
taken into account in the case of prioritisation. In the implementation of smart
cities, local governments, non-governmental organisations, private sector
and universities are defined as stakeholders other than central government
institutions and organisations. In this process, it is noteworthy that the
proportion of actions in which local governments are involved is high (97.5%),
which can be considered close to the central government. For each action

2 Within the scope of the 2020-2023 NSCSAP, cities are defined as urban areas within the settle-
ment units (province, district) with a population of 50,000 and above. On the other side, “urban
areas with intensive activities in sectors such as agriculture, industry, tourism and service provision
and with a population of 50,000 or more periodically” are also considered within this scope.

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