Özet:

Smart cities, where one of their main goals is to improve the quality of life of people, is a glocal phenomenon. The fact that each city has unique and different problems requires cities to be addressed at the local level with glocal City Development Strategies (CDS). The local city management model affects smart CDS and ways of implementation. The smart city concept, emerging with globalizing and developing technology, offers solutions to overcome the difficulty of finding the appropriate governance model. Cities all over the world are adopting a new concept to manage their cities and implement CDS. This concept is called "smart governance". Smart city governance involves all stakeholders in the participation process using various tools. One of these tools is living lab. Although living laboratories are suitable to involve stakeholders in the process, the interaction between smart city governance and living laboratories is not emphasized enough in the literature. This article discusses the necessity of adopting a living lab approach as a solution to the challenges of stakeholder engagement in the process of establishing glocal city development strategies and smart city governance. The main contribution of the article is to introduce the idea that the living lab approach can be used to create global CDS and to address the challenges of stakeholder engagement and service development in smart city governance. In this way, the study is expected to contribute to the ongoing debate about what living lab should be.

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