Peri-urban villages on the fringes of Lahore are on the frontlines of rapid transformation, where farmland is converted into real estate and expanding infrastructures redraw the boundaries of everyday life. While such change is often framed through displacement, inequality, and environmental decline, this book asks a different question: how is it experienced by those who live through it?Based on eight years of multi-sited ethnographic research, it brings forward the voices of village communities navigating the quiet but profound unmaking of their social and ecological worlds. As cash economies take hold, gains in income and housing are accompanied by less visible losses & of trust, reciprocity, shared labour, ecological security, and belonging & forms of life that cannot be compensated or restored.Revisiting Andre Gunder Frank&s theory of the development of underdevelopment, the book extends its insights to urban&rural frontiers and introduces the concept ofinternal underdevelopment: a process through which development itself produces new forms of vulnerability from within.Through memory, narrative, and lived experience, nostalgia emerges not as sentiment but as a way of knowing & revealing what is lost when ways of life are remade in the name of progress. This book offers a powerful account of transformation at the edges of the city & and a critical rethinking of what development ultimately delivers.