© 2019, Universidad de Chile, Instituto de la Vivienda. All rights reserved.The present study aimed to characterize the territorial configuration of the habitat in the Alfonso Lopez neighborhood from the social production in space, by describing its dynamics of territorial appropriation and control. The research focused on a mixed approach with a sequential explanatory design, in which urban planning and citizen perception on the image of the neighborhood was used. It could be said that the Alfonso Lopez neighborhood is an informal settlement characterized by urban deficit and socio-urban isolation. In its territorial habitat configuration processes, there is an incomplete coverage of basic public services, deficit of urban equipment, a perception of insecurity, conditions of environmental vulnerability and semi-consolidated urban planning. It is concluded that this settlement is a human mixture, a scenario in which the acts of inhabiting build their territory with the intention of integrating and interrelated with the surrounding sectors and to blur the phenomenon of social segregation and habitat fragmentation; For this reason, territorial control is given by the processes of local organization and leadership as a strategy to achieve urban conditions of habitability.