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Antalya City Blog's New Mission

We are proud to announce our new mission! AntalyaCityBlog 's New Mission will be to introduce people in the city of #Antalya to the concept of #SmartCity . Yet many people may not be aware of the next phase in  21st century  surveillance grid; the ' smarter city '.  Why the smart city? The benefits of pursuing a smart city strategy are manyfold. Harvard Business School academics Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Stanley S. Litow have described a �smarter city manifesto� in order to address the many problems facing city governments in particular . With a slant towards North American cities, the authors outline issues such as the silo-based structures governments ended up with at the end of the 20th century, combined with the inability of governments to stretch their services over the large sprawling distances and conditions of the contemporary city, a weakened civic leadership, and a focus on delivery rather than addressing the cause of problems (described as a lack of �strategic...

Antalya City Blog Visited Burdur Archaeology Museum

If you want to explore the amazing archeological sites of Sagalossos, Kybra, Kremna, and Aphrodisias, the Burdur Museum is a great place to start. Many pieces from each of these sites are displayed in Burdur Archaeology Museum. There are colossal heads of  Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius, and Zeus. 1. Garden (Open Exhibition):  Statues, steles, various architectural objects, tombs and tombstones, incomplete inscriptions, high embossments, etc. of Phrygian, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman Times are exhibited in the garden of the museum.  2. Statue Hall:  Almost all of the monuments exhibited in this hall have been brought from the archaic city of Kremna within the borders of Bucak District of Burdur in the 18th century. These monuments include a Great and Lesser Athena, Hygieia, Leto, Apollo, Nemesis, Dionysos, Aphrodite and woman statues with cloths, all of high artistic value.  3. Small Monuments Hall:  The monuments in this hall are arranged in ch...