This chapter examines how neoliberal urbanisation in peri-urban Lahore dismantles not only agrarian ecologies but also the social fabric of community life. While land acquisition is justified through compensation packages, these payments conceal deeper impoverishments: the stripping of fertile soils, loss of commons, fragmentation of kinship networks and the erosion of cultural practices that once sustained collective resilience. Ethnographic insights reveal that compensation produces new hierarchies—turning farmers into small-time real-estate dealers, women into precarious domestic workers and children into consumers detached from agrarian ecologies. The analysis situates land not as a passive commodity but as a living ecology and a moral economy, whose dispossession reverberates across generations. Communities that once thrived on reciprocity and subsistence are remade into fractured, cash-dependent households, increasingly alienated from one another. By tracing these transformations, the chapter argues that neoliberal urbanisation is not merely the conversion of land to concrete, but the systematic unmaking of lifeworlds—where compensation is offered, but community is irretrievably lost.