Governmentality as “the governmental rationalization in the exercise of political sovereignty” implies the construction of control techniques, forms of knowledge (disciplines), representation regimes and modes of intervention. This rationalization is built through control and production devices that are expressed in discourses and power technologies. In that order, urban governmentality brings us closer to the discussion of the city or the socio-spatial relationships that occur in the dynamics of the city. In this sense we ask ourselves: does the city carry with it an instantaneous idea of governmentality, or is governmentality constructed to build a city? So, would we be talking about several city projects within a city?. These questions guide our research, with regard to the contexts in which the dynamics of a city like Medellin are developed, with respect to development discourses, the economic model and the State model; which constitute the devices in which governmentality is expressed. This article analyzes the performance scenario of urban governmentality as a device that, through strategies of control and subjectivation, leads to the figure of the self-governed and productive subject, to say it with David Harvey, within the framework of a neoliberal polis.