Smart planning in development areas of metropolitan cities: Cases of Vienna-Aspern and Gaziantep bizim şehir

Smart cities are living spaces that aim to improve the quality of urban life while reducing the negative effects of city life and do this with the support of technology. It offers smart, environmentally friendly and sustainable solutions for each individual to benefit from the housing, education, health and service sectors at the maximum level. While designing smart cities, spaces that facilitate daily life, strengthen interaction between individuals and increase socialization should be created. Within the scope of this thesis, the planning and design approaches developed to improve the quality of urban life are discussed chronologically and the assumption that the smart city approach is formed as a result of technological-based developments and contains the characteristics of other initiatives and approaches is emphasized. In this thesis study, smart city applications and design principles, which are prominent in the world and in Turkey, will be brought to the process of improving the quality of life and designing sustainable living spaces from the perspective of a smart city approach, and a smart city approach by evaluating the situation and SWOT analysis in the examples of Gaziantep Bizim Şehir Project and Vienna Aspern City. Various suggestions have been made for strategies.