The Graffitour of Comuna 13, San Javier, in Medellín, has become the area with the highest number of tourist visitors in the city. Community organizations have utilized art, culture, and history as central elements for the development of historical tours that speak to the context of the area, its roots, past, and future. Despite the attempts of various groups, including the government, to modify, influence, and impose management and control discourses on these expressions, social organizations resist and create their own narrative. This article aims to showcase the collective harmony experienced by these communities, which challenges the orthodox notions of development and progress, and more recently, the concepts of the smart city and innovative metropolis. Through various information collection and triangulation strategies, this research highlights the city's milestones and alternative community organizing methods that reject external functionalist impositions of administration, accounting, and orthodox economics.