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The treatment and planning of the western slopes of the Quito are at the heart of the natural risk management in the city. The deconstruction of this public policy reveals as much about the challenges of development as it does about the logic of controlling urban margins. It is true that the planning of the slopes has led to a fight against hazards that endanger the operation of the sanitation network and urban mobility. Even before, this was part of a logic of control of urban sprawl and territorialization of margins that the authorities wish to integrate into the municipal planning. The evolution of this project also shows that the struggle against the “natural” risk supports a policy to improvement the quality of life.