Spatial segregation in the context of urban poverty: Tokat Sulusokak case

Throughout the history of the city, unequal relationship in the production, consumption and distribution relationships reflected in space and positioning of different social classes are different urban space. Bidirectional relationship between society and space is dominated by the specificity of the relations of production. Change and transformation in the relations of production as well as physical space and social structure is met with segregation. But the change in the relations of production does not lead to a altogether transformation on the social structure and physical space. The sediment elements of feudal production system are continue their existence in the communities that interact with capitalism. That is possible to see the spatial segregation in non-metropolitan urban area even though unequal relations of capitalist relations of production from the urban space of the poor and the affluent metropolitan cities more visible separation. Tokat/Sulusokak is the one of the urban space which one affected by capitalist and feudal relations of production at the same time. During the Ottoman period Sulusokak was the center of trade and it is affected by the change relations of production and technology and today differentiated from other regions of Tokat in terms of urban poverty. During the Ottoman period Sulusokak was the center of trade. Sulusokak affected by the change in the relations of production and technology and today it has become dissociated from other regions in terms of urban poverty. Keywords: Urban, spatial segregation, urban poverty, immigration, infiltration