Abstract:

E. Fuat Keyman and Berrin Koyuncu-Lorasdağı's work “The Story of Eight Cities: A New Locality and New Middle Classes in Turkey” describes the relationship of urbanization, the phenomenon of middle classes and the phenomenon of neoliberalism with each other. E. Fuat Keyman and Berrin Koyuncu-Lorasdağı published this book as a continuation of the work “Cities: The Transformation of Anatolia, the Future of Turkey”, which they introduced into the literature in 2010, and sampled eight cities from various regions of our country on the impact of the economy on cities. In making this sampling, he examined cities in the context of sociological, demographic, political, cultural, ethnic and religion and related them to economics. In order to decipher our rapidly urbanizing country in the context of the new locality, he examined the connection established between space and capital, the middle classization that emerged with the rise of capital, and the traces of middle classization in cultural and social life through eight cities. In addition, current data were shared for some cities by referring to the trustee appointments experienced during and after the October 2016 State of Emergency period. The work was created using data obtained from primary and secondary sources. As a primary source, municipal, prefectural, chambers of commerce and industry, technocities, university publications, Development Agency reports, daily newspapers, TURKSTAT data and research conducted on cities in Turkey have been analyzed and prepared by analyzing the cities that are the subject of research. The secondary sources used were created by scanning the city, political economy and local government books written in the world and in our country. This work makes an important contribution to the literature by conveying to us the rapid changes that cities are experiencing based on the economy.

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