Villa Urquiza and Villa del Parque are two barrios (districts) in the centre–periphery of the city of Buenos Aires, which have been partitioned in the middle of the twen-tieth century. These two districts are residential spaces mainly occupied by the middle-class. As many other districts, Villa Urquiza and Villa del Parque have been characterised for a long time by their local socio-economy, and by their morphology – individual housing was almost entirely predominant. Since the mid-2000s, there has been considerable real estate activity that has radi-cally modified the districts’ physiognomy through the dissemination of residential complexes in several areas. The architectural evolutions of these spaces are intimately linked to the mutations of urban production as well as to the practices and representations of their inhabitants. Daily mobility in the metropolis is indeed more frequent and sinuous. It participates in the emergence of archipelagos of places – structured by the differentiated practices of the inhabitants – which disrupt the way of living in the barrio and the city. At a more profound level, the modalities of appropriation of the district have radically changed. From the daily practices to symbolic representations, inhabitants cannot engage anymore in the production of the spaces they live in.