A Smart City Initiative: The Case of Istanbul Senin App

Abstract

Smart city initiatives are current trends especially for local governments to synthesize urban policies regarding infrastructure, e-services, urban planning, smart networks and gather within the information and communication technologies (ICT). Strategies across world-wide foster for further developing practical response to urban needs as coping strategy. In such, especially mega cities reconstructing via digitalization or digitization, which is essential to consider its analytical distinction. 'Smart' cities, which is highly dominant within the discourse of contemporary urbanization, associated within the digital landscape, separating spatial relations of social life within the urban space. This study suggests that the concepts of digitization and digitilization, which are interrelated and often used interchangeably, can be an effective analytical tool in the political rhetoric in 'smart' city. Dialectical relationship between the inclusive, sustainable and smart dimensions of the city will be examined through political rhetoric using Istanbul Senin app case study. © 2025 by IGI Global Scientific Publishing. All rights reserved.