Networked gentrification: place making strategies and social networks of middle class gentrifiers in Istanbul

Ebru Soytemel; Besime Şen

Networked gentrification: place making strategies and social networks of middle class gentrifiers in Istanbul

Ebru Soytemel
, Besime Şen

Research output: Chapter in Book/Published conference output › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

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
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

UN SDGs

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SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

Keywords

Istanbul
gentrification
middle clas
belonging
social networks
inequalities
neighbourhood
social boundaries
spatial boundaries

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Networked gentrification: place making strategies and social networks of middle class gentrifiers in Istanbul. / Soytemel, Ebru; Şen, Besime.
Whose city is that? Culture, design, spectacle and capital in Istanbul. ed. / Dilek Özhan Koçak; Orhan Kemal Koçak. Newcastle upon Tyne (UK): Cambridge Scholars, 2014. p. 67-92.

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Networked gentrification: place making strategies and social networks of middle class gentrifiers in Istanbul

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