With the advent of neoliberal politics in 1980s, cities began to be conceived as the places of capital accumulation, where the old production places were seen as the places of redevelopment. In many industrialized cities, the production facilities were moved to other locations worldwide that in turn revealed itself with high rates of unemployment and social change in those cities. The change from production uses to service uses is evident in the fringe-belt areas of cities that can be easily followed through the erection of new building types in the urban landscape.

Departing from the question(s) “how was deindustrialization process realized in fringe-belt areas? How did this process give effect to the change in the character of cities? What is the overall effect of the deindustrialization process on the historico-geographical structure of cities?”, this study aims to discuss the effect of change in the fringe-belt areas of cities during the deindustrialization process on their character. A plot-by-plot investigation is conducted in inner and middle fringe belts of the city of Adana, Turkey. The results revealed that the transformation processes in the fringe belts gave rise to the emergence of new consumption spaces, in which once the most important factories of the city were existent. While a city of production turned into a city of consumption, the fringe-belt alienation has been evident in the erection of new buildings, such as shopping centres, office blocks and hotels, in the urban landscape, and a development cycle in the plots.