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Old urban center restoration and a new wave of museum-centered city life recently have emerged as a salient phenomenon in the daily lives of city dwellers in Gaziantep, Southeast Turkey. This article examines the cultural production of an urban identity here that is both cosmopolitan and entrepreneurial in nature. Drawing on contemporary theoretical work and the case of Gaziantep, this article analyzes the cosmopolitan and entrepreneurial city genre and identifies new forms of inequalities which may consequently emerge.

It has been claimed that class analysis cannot explain contemporary social hierarchy and new forms of cultural alignments. The recent works of class theorists, on the other hand, rejects the arguments of the "death of class," instead propose a modification of class theory with an emphasis on culture and identity. Drawing on Beverly Skeggs and Mike Savage's studies among this group, the paper argues that including cultural formations into class theory these studies bring along a new perspective to the subject. In a recent study with Bennett et al. Culture, Class, Distinction (2008) Savage focuses on cultural dimension of class in contemporary Britain. However, the article questions the way the study explains people's experiences of class in their everyday life. Indeed, the paper argues that Savage and Bennett et.al's work gives a vague explanation of class identities and cannot explain questions about the everyday practices of class and identity. This is not to deny that the pattern of class and culture has been changed, rather the paper urges us to consider how relations of class are made and re-made within everyday life and how this effects class identity.

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