This article proposes to analyze the urban phenomena resulting from the implementation of horizontal gated communities, located in the municipality of Rondonopolis-MT. Its high commercial value, characterized as speculative, demonstrates the sale of the city as a commodity in the consolidated soil of the municipality. The socioeconomic development of/in cities occurs unevenly through urban interventions, resulting in socio-spatial and socio-economic inequalities produced and reproduced spatially. Thus, understanding the urban structure resulting from real estate speculation as appropriation of public space, segregation, gentrification, spreading and the fortified enclosure existing in the city's gated communitiess, which makes evident the socio-spatial and socio-economic contradictions and disparities in a medium-sized city with strong support from agribusiness in the region.