The concern to understand the internal logic of urban public polices arises from the need to recognize the origin of ideas and paradigms that have endured the political construction of territory. Also, to be aware of the ideas that have supported the adoption of public action instruments to intervene, modify and organize urban territory. This research proposes basic elements for a methodology to analyze the referential of the public urban policies supported on a public action gear (public policy, planning and government). The purpose of this scheme is to reconstruct the trajectories of territorialization and understand planning instruments as instruments of public action, and as a unit of analysis of public policies in the territory.