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2.2.3. REMOURBAN: Eskişehir Tepebaşı Smart Urban Regeneration Project

There are 7 countries and 22 project partners in the REMOURBAN project,
which is supported within the scope of the EU Horizon 2020 Smart Cities and
Communities Program and covers the pilot cities of Seraing, Miskolc and
Eskişehir (Eskişehir Tepebaşı Municipality, 2014). The aim of the project is to
implement smart city practices under the groups of energy, transportation and
information technologies in three pilot cities. The practices identified for this
purpose are compiled in Table 3. The Turkish consortium includes Eskişehir
Tepebaşı Municipality, Anadolu University, Demir Enerji, Energon and Ölçsan.

Table 3 Project Components and Practices of REMOURBAN (created by the author,
quoted from (Eskişehir Tepebaşı Municipality, 2014))

Components Practices
Energy Making the existing buildings energy-efficient based on a ecologically
sensitive and sustainable environmental understanding, replacing buil-
ding envelopes, renewing window and joinery systems, designing envi-
ronmentally-friendly air conditioning systems, installing solar panels, and
making building and environmental lighting systems smart

Transportation Supply of 4 e-buses for the execution of public services, 22 hybrid vehic-
les for the execution of municipal services and 8.9 km bike path for smart
bikes and provision of 50 electric bicycles as well as rental and smart par-
king system services
Information Creating a Smart City Monitoring Portal; obtaining detailed information
technologies on the areas in which the energy consumed in buildings is consumed; de-
termining how much energy is produced from renewable resources; com-
piling the usage information on smart bicycles; monitoring the energy
usage data of electric buses, the number of passengers carried in these
buses, etc. instantly or collectively.
The aim of the project is to create a renewal model to accelerate smart
urban regeneration (Eskişehir Tepebaşı Municipality, 2014). To that end, the
project was completed by reaching the committed targets with the project
implemented in Yaşam Köyü (Life Village) in Aşağı Söğütönü Neighbourhood
(Aka, 2021). For this reason, the project is also defined as the first smart urban
regeneration project implemented and completed in Türkiye.

3. Method

After presenting the national legal and administrative framework on
smart cities and urban regeneration, the part of the study constituting its
main purpose was started. In this context, firstly, the 2020-2023 NSCSAP was
analyzed in detail through document and content analysis, and the strategic
goals, targets and actions where urban regeneration was mentioned were

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