Experimenting governance for sustainable urban futures: Urban Living Labs in Turkiye

IF 6.6 1区经济学 Q1 URBAN STUDIES

Cities Pub Date : 2025-10-07 DOI:10.1016/j.cities.2025.106514

Ozge Celik Yilmaz , Ozhan Ertekin

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Abstract

As Turkiye confronts pressing urban challenges stemming from rapid population growth, migration flows, and opaque spatial policies, experimental governance tools become increasingly vital. This article explores how Urban Living Labs (ULLs) operate as innovative platforms to advance sustainable urban development in Turkiye. Drawing on five case studies—Başakşehir, Bodrum, Eskişehir, Mezopotamya Living Labs and the Istanbul Planning Agency (IPA)—and grounded in qualitative interviews with key stakeholders, the article examines how ULLs foster collaborative, data-informed, and adaptive planning. It identifies key enablers, structural limitations, and context-specific dynamics that shape the effectiveness of ULLs as tools for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The findings reveal that while ULLs offer critical opportunities for inclusive innovation and participatory urban governance, their success depends on transparent institutional design, long-term policy commitment, and locally embedded knowledge. This research contributes to the growing literature on experimental urbanism by contextualizing ULLs within Turkiye's planning and governance landscape.

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可持续城市未来的治理实验：土耳其城市生活实验室

由于土耳其面临着人口快速增长、移民流动和不透明的空间政策所带来的紧迫的城市挑战，实验性的治理工具变得越来越重要。本文探讨了城市生活实验室（ULLs）如何作为创新平台推进土耳其的可持续城市发展。本文通过对ba ehir、Bodrum、eski ehir、Mezopotamya Living Labs和Istanbul Planning Agency （IPA）这五个案例的研究，并以对主要利益相关者的定性访谈为基础，探讨了ull如何促进协作、数据知情和适应性规划。它确定了影响ull作为实现可持续发展目标（sdg）工具有效性的关键因素、结构限制和具体情况动态。研究结果表明，虽然城市规划为包容性创新和参与式城市治理提供了重要机遇，但其成功与否取决于透明的制度设计、长期政策承诺和本地知识。本研究通过将ull置于土耳其的规划和治理环境中，为实验性城市主义的文献研究做出了贡献。

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Cities URBAN STUDIES-

CiteScore

11.20

自引率

9.00%

发文量

517

期刊介绍： Cities offers a comprehensive range of articles on all aspects of urban policy. It provides an international and interdisciplinary platform for the exchange of ideas and information between urban planners and policy makers from national and local government, non-government organizations, academia and consultancy. The primary aims of the journal are to analyse and assess past and present urban development and management as a reflection of effective, ineffective and non-existent planning policies; and the promotion of the implementation of appropriate urban policies in both the developed and the developing world.