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2020 - Volume 4 - Number 2

New Trends in Urban Life of Turkey in the Context of Lifestyle Migration

Betül Kızıltepe * betulkiziltepe@balikesir.edu.tr * ORCID: 0000-0002-3622-9398 * ResearcherID: AAK-9804-2020
Balıkesir University, Faculty of Science and Literature, Department of Sociology, Balıkesir, TURKEY

Open Journal for Sociological Studies, 2020, 4(2), 55-66 * DOI: https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojss.0402.01055k
Received: 14 March 2020 ▪ Accepted: 28 May 2020 ▪ Published Online: 20 July 2020

LICENCE: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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ABSTRACT:
Demographic structures and difficult living conditions of metropolitan cities affect the search for different lifestyles by individuals living in these cities. This presents a different concept: lifestyle migration. In cities, spatial and social transformations, persuade individuals to have a simple life style than those who live in the metropolis. Today, the migration pattern has transformed from large-scale cities to smaller-scale cities. Boredom and the rat race of metropolitan life lead individuals to live in smaller-scale cities instead of large-scale. This study has explored people’s migration from İstanbul to provinces during the last three years. Findings suggests that increasingly people select locations to migrate to, considering the effect it will have on their quality of life. This research aims to indicate that urban density and changing urban conditions lead individuals to live in relatively smaller cities and reveal the different trends in urban life in the context of Turkey. In this research, which is based on the secondary data analysis, migration patterns and new urban trends have been determined by examining the intercity migration data of Turkey.

KEY WORDS: lifestyle migration, new urban tendency, better life, metropolitan city, smaller-scale city.

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR:
Betül Kızıltepe, Balıkesir University, Faculty of Science and Literature, Department of Sociology, Balıkesir, TURKEY. E-mail: betulkiziltepe@balikesir.edu.tr.

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