This chapter reconsiders Andre Gunder Frank’s thesis of the ‘development of underdevelopment’ through the lens of Lahore’s urban frontier. Once embedded in agrarian systems as productive ‘satellites’, peri-urban villages have become sacrificial zones for speculative real estate and state-backed urban expansion. Drawing on ethnographic research from 2014 to 2022, the chapter traces how fertile farmland and communal life are dismantled through land commodification, dispossession and the advance of Defence Housing Authority (DHA) projects for expansion of gated community for the elite. The analysis reveals both visible and invisible transformations unfolding in agrarian peripheries. Material changes include farmland loss, declining water and food quality, and broader ecological degradation. Equally significant are the less perceptible disruptions, such as the erosion of trust and kinship, emotional and psychological dislocation, and the ongoing struggle to preserve agrarian memory. Together, these shifts illustrate how environmental, social, and affective worlds are being reshaped, leaving communities suspended between a disappearing past and an uncertain future. This is where I am extending Frank’s insights, as it shows how dependency is reproduced not only globally but also locally in the lived landscapes of peri-urban Lahore. Development here emerges not as progress but as a political project of fracturing, where life and land are reordered amid dispossession and contested futures. It further reinforces that development is not neutral, but a designed, project - a part of global agenda is intrinsically political, and it’s not meant to improve a lay man’s life but a discourse tied to power to serve big shots.