Özet:

Since their existence, cities have been centers of concentration of powers. This state of concentration has inevitably created a dialectical relationship between cities and power. With the process defined by Gordon Childe as "urban revolution", cities began to attract population, capital and power. This process accelerated especially with the industrial revolution and started to shape the city. While power creates the city, the city has always been the place where power relations are produced staged and reproduced. Although cities are centers of production and reproduction produced both the "gatekeepers" and the "grave diggers" of power. In order to create "gatekeepers", the government wanted to shape the "built space" with physical interventions on the one hand, and to construct the "urban identity" with social interventions on the other hand. Considering this process together with the concepts of hegemony, habitus, security dispositif, directed consumption society, the issue of how neo-liberalism comprehends the city is positioned at the center of this study. The claim of the study is that the neo-liberal ideology is trying to turn the city into a Cerberus of power, with the way it is conceived and constructed.

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