The Importance of Digitalization for Sustaining Cultural Environments in Resilient Cities

In recent years, cities have started to develop faster than ever, and this improvementhasled to crucial changes in terms of social, environmental, as well as cultural conditions. Today, people mostly prefer living in cities for many reasons,wherecities' sources have been forced to their limits for adaptation to this growth. In this respect,planners and designers have started to search for sustainable and innovative solutions with the help of technology and digitalization. With this dramatic improvement, not only planning and design professionals but also governments started to take smart and long-term solutions for resilient citiesinto consideration.Sustainable cities are self-sufficient with theirnaturalandcultural environments.They can also manage their economic and social acts from the viewpoint of sustainability. With the increasing demand for technological developments in the age ofdigitalization, cities should also include ‘Smartness'in order to achieve sustainable developmentfor resilience,where environmental, social, and culturalaspects need to be provided in a sustainable way via creatingsmart solutions.Digital transformation can help fulfill the needs and future expectationsof city dwellers by increasing opportunitiesand cultural valuesfora sustainable lifestyleas one of the fundamentals of resilient cities. In this regard, this paper mainly discusses how digitalization and smart technologies can help withsustainable development and propose a new model for digital transformation toachieveculturallyresilient cities.