Abstract
This chapter explores how gentrifiers in Istanbul mobilise their social networks and social capital during the gentrification process, and how their networks are constructed through processes of “ place making” and belonging. In addition, this chapter aims to demonstrate how social capital and social networks work in practice during the gentrification process. It also examines place making and claiming strategies of gentrifiers by focusing on the following questions: (a) What are the spatial strategies of the new middle class, and what is the importance of these strategies?; (b) How are class and spatial boundaries designated in gentrified neighbourhoods?; (c) What kinds of networks and relationships play a role in developing certain housing dispositions or belonging patterns
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Whose city is that? Culture, design, spectacle and capital in Istanbul |
| Editors | Dilek Özhan Koçak, Orhan Kemal Koçak |
| Place of Publication | Newcastle upon Tyne (UK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge Scholars |
| Pages | 67-92 |
| Number of pages | 26 |
| ISBN (Print) | 1-4438-6043-3, 978-1-4438-6043-7 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Aug 2014 |
Keywords
- Istanbul
- gentrification
- middle clas
- belonging
- social networks
- inequalities
- neighbourhood
- social boundaries
- spatial boundaries