İzmir
İzmir, a large metropolis facing the Aegean Sea from western Anatolia, is Turkey's third most populous city and traces its history back 8,500 years.
About
Through its history, İzmir has been a crossroads for diverse cultures and religions including Persians, Ancient Greeks, Assyrians, Romans, Byzantines and Ottomans; a fact easily felt when visiting. With a total population, including the surrounding region, of 4,425,789, İzmir shines as an economically and socially dynamic hub, emphasised perhaps especially by half of its residents being under 30 years old.
Moving beyond its past, İzmir is also looking to its future and was amongst the 112 Mission Cities, chosen by the European Union to serve as frontrunners in the campaign to make European cities climate neutral.
In the Re-Value partnership, İzmir is focused on refining and expanding its design strategy for its waterfront and the dense urban texture behind, benefitting from earlier strategies on its connection with the sea developed within the İzmirSea Project, and specific lessons drawn from various pilot projects for sustainable transformation, such as URBAN GreenUP. As the largest city taking part in Re-Value, İzmir's dense urban settlement around its waterfront puts an increased emphasis on the task of improving the quality of life as part of its roadmap for climate neutrality supporting sustainable growth.
To benefit from the Re-Value approach in integrated planning and design, İzmir plans to develop and implement a sustainable green zone to increase urban comfort and climate-neutral urban transition within dense urban environment behind its waterfront. Izmir also aims to further enhance these efforts with Digital Twinning, to address issues like urban flood management, water impermeability and heat island effect. With its increasing youth population, the city is experiencing a valuable buy-in from local folks when it comes to the digital tools available for them already; and aims to increase the data-driven insights in support of scenario-building and to inform the decision-making processes.
The efforts undertaken in İzmir are taken up in a close partnership between the İzmir Metropolitan Municipality (IMM) and the İzmir Institute of Technology (IZTECH), with IMM leading on the overall development of the city's strategy and implementation of sustainable green zone and IZTECH supporting especially on data creation, management/analysis, as well as data driven and transformative innovative solutions.
Key Numbers
2
Local partners in Re-Value
4,500,000
Population
30
District municipalities are part of the “Metropolitan Municipality”
Timeline
Re-Value Innovation Cycles experience-based report 1
Discover how the Re-Value cities are using three types of Innovation Cycles to help them develop narratives for this transformation, find and apply the relevant...
İzmir: Citizen Design Science in Practice
Learn about İzmir's great example of working inclusively. In this round, cities have the chance to be inspired and can learn from each other.
Students at İzmir Camp Map Urban Challenges
In İzmir, Türkiye, university students specializing in landscape architecture and urban planning embarked on the "1st Innovation Camp" undertaken as part of Re-Value...
İzmir Sea Park - Landscape Transformations
Learn how the Izmir Sea project is revolutionizing local urban design through a decade-long initiative to enhance the city’s relationship with its waterfront....
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