This article focuses on the economic and political dimensions of the relations between deindustrialization, gentrification and the new middle class in Turkey. The urban and political correspondences of the increasing intra class segmentation are discussed through the processes of deindustrialization and gentrification. Gentrification, which became a current issue in urban centers since 1990, created a new economic search in urban spaces that were emptied and regressed after deindustrialization. The current increase in economic value in city centers gave way to a class based evacuation and created an "exclusive" perspective, which is directed against the working class history in the cities and in general to the states of poverty. As a result, the disfavor of the working classes and a "vicious" new middle class discourse made the urban imagination of the urban elites, which only aim to increase their economic wealth, dominant in public.
