The Views of the Gentrification in Daily Life: Spatial and Social Change of Balat

Gentrification describes a displacement process by which the British sociologist Ruth Glass emphasized social justice and class as a new phenomenon in the center of London in the second half of the 20th century. With the 1980 and 90s, the process of gentrification has become widespread on a global scale, spreading over to many cities from Western European cities to America and, even further, from Mumbai to Istanbul. This research focuses on the views of gentrification in daily life which is an urban process. The data gathered through fieldwork and face to face interviews that have been conducted in Balat between the March 2013 and December 2016 is going to be the scientific basis for this research paper. In this framework, the gentrification period of Balat which begun at the late 1990's and has been continuing gradually was examined from daily life perspectives with factual aspects. According to the determined framework, thepaper is organized into three parts. First part introduces the concept and discusses the relevant issues namely “Gentrification and its Actors”, “Defination of Research Method”, “Nowadays in Balat”,“Spatial Features and Socio-Demographic Pattern of Balat”. Second part focuses on spatial features and social change of Balat in a chronological way with the title of “Balat and Gentrification: Gradual Change”. Following the chronology, the last part "Changing Spaces, People and Relations is going to explore and analyze the data gathered from fieldwork in the context of old and new comer, replacement, price variation and street usage