The challenges and the contradictions suffered by the habitation subject in the territory of the Rio de Janeiro city defined an extremely inequality landscape regarding architectural and urbanistic characteristics. The main reason of this inequality is the inefficiency of the government ´s strategies to solve an urban planning problem that started decades ago. Having in mind that habitation is a human necessity that influences and is influenced by material and symbolical dimensions of the space, this research makes a multidimensional analysis about the city´s habitation problems, observing it in the political, economic and cultural aspects, that were defined by the formation process of an inequality urban landscape, particularly in the social habitation area since the 60´s. In this context, the Nova Sepetiba housing project has been studied as a materialization of these processes that scar the above mentioned city and also as a possibility for governmental actions that provides more sustainable paths in the social habitation area. As we have seen, the housing project in analysis becomes the concrete object of a geographic analysis, which must be a fundamental tool for the implementation of a more consistent habitation politic related to the ideas of social-spatial development, that should be in sync with the construction of an autonomous society.