Investigating the Compatibility of Smart Cities with Their Context

The rapid growth of the urban population has caused problems. One of the new approaches to problem-solving is smart cities. This study aims to investigate the compatibility of smart cities with their context. Research is a fundamental-applied study; where the meta-analysis method as one of the meta-study methods, and the content analysis method have been used. The methodological approach is mixed (quantitative-qualitative) and the data obtained this research, including 70 sources (mainly from 2011 to 2021), has been library datasets. Findings show that most of the reviewed resources in terms of titles, do not have a title similar to the research topic and in terms of the content, a small number of resources have paid attention to the issue of context in smart cities. some previous studies have emphasized the need to do this issue, and this indicates that the challenge of contextualization in smart cities needs to be further substantiated and documented, and the results of this study confirms the claim that the subject under discussion will have an important implication in urban planning literature.