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Though social aspects of cities have been emphasized in architecture and urban planning departments of universities, this perspective has been mostly ignored in practical life. This study aims to understand the measurement of city’s well-off people’s perceptions towards poor people in the context of social aspects of cities. The method of the study was designed based on the fieldwork in the city of Adana through merging quantitative and qualitative techniques. In the study, surveys were used as a part of quantitative technique and, observation notes and semi-structured in-depth interviews were used as examples of qualitative technique. Qualitative methods were particularly used to support the research in elaborating the unrevealed data of the quantitative research. These results from the survey research were evaluated together with in-depth interviews and observation notes.As a result, it was seen that the qualitative research enabled the study to reveal the unmeasured aspects of the quantitative results. In this study, it was argued that while survey data results allows us to make weak connections between spatial segregation and perception of the well-off people towards poor people, data gathered from in-depth interviews’ findings illustrates a high variation in the perceptions of the well-off people in Adana