The urbanisation of Lahore is a story of both persistence and breakage, where agrarian landscapes give way to concrete under the long, dark shadows of empire and neoliberal globalisation. This chapter traces the historical trajectory of the city’s expansion, situating it within colonial land regimes as well as the intensification of neoliberal reforms. While urbanisation is not new, in recent decades it has accelerated dramatically, framed as the engine of economic growth and modernization as a delusional marker of growth. Neoliberal policies, with their emphasis on deregulation and private capital, have created an insatiable demand for land. This transformation is not natural but actively produced through the collaboration of state and market - mediated by urban restructuring, land-use planning, and policies that enable eviction and displacement. On Lahore’s periphery, agrarian fields are rapidly converted into real estate frontiers, shaped not only by speculative private capital but also by the state itself, acting simultaneously as regulator and development partner. By connecting colonial legacies with contemporary neoliberal urbanisation, the chapter argues that Lahore’s growth is not merely spatial expansion but a political project of land, power, and control.