Various conflictive logics of territorial appropriation overlap in the neighborhoods Risaralda, San Juan de Dios, and Salazar Robledo, which are located in the north border of the city of Pereira on the Otún river shore.Those logics seek to appropriate and control their own social processes over this space creating tense dynamics.Contradictions occur between the logics of the governance and the logics of the residents.The governance through spatial public policies tries to claim and control the space and so do the residents through their daily routines.As a consequence, this interaction exacerbates economic, sociopolitical, and environmental vulnerability for the residents and their immediate environment.