What practices, exchanges shape urban neighbouring relations in a contemporary metropolitan context is the question this project seeks to answer. Neighbouring practices and exchanges are a specific type of social bond because they are based on propinquity (Si86) and also because they are underpinned by "practical use of neighbourhood" (TalBlo03). Neighbouring practices, meanings and contexts are understood as key-aspects to analyse both the ways by which individuals and households relate to local social space how they face the factors that structure the urban condition.