Recognizing the multiplicity of dimensions present in the suburb-train relationship, this research aims to investigate the process of formation and the transformations that took place in the Marechal Hermes neighborhood (North Zone of Rio de Janeiro) based on the implementation of the railway branches that cross it (beginning of the 20th century). It also aims to understand how the division caused by these physical elements has influenced the constitution of the territory and the social organization of the neighborhood up to the present day. Contemporary studies of Rio s suburbs, examining the implications of spatial fragmentation in the neighborhood through case studies, have encouraged me to understand how the physical segregation caused by these urban boundaries permeates the imagination of the population, influencing the processes of social hierarchization and segregation on a local scale. Based on the concepts presented by Merleau-Ponty, Juhani Pallasmaa, Kevin Lynch, Michel de Certeau, Bernard Lepetit, Pierre Bourdieu, and Marion Segaud, I propose a departure from the pragmatic and functionalist bases that still frame architecture today, to reflect on some of the non-objective aspects related to the production of space. What are the effects of the elements that make up the urban landscape on the way we perceive and relate to the space around us? Through the phenomenological approach and space in its anthropological dimension, what lessons can we draw? The fragmentation resulting from the implementation of the railway branches (Supervia and Reta de Honório) in the Marechal Hermes neighborhood still has a significant influence on the patterns of occupation, use, and appropriation of spaces.