During the past twenty years, the neighbourhood of El Cabanyal (Valencia, Spain) has suffered from a strong process of degradation after the approval of a municipal plan that involved splitting the neighbourhood in two parts, as well as the disappearance of part of it. Since it was approved in 1998, different forms of neighbourhood resistance have arisen. The objective of this article is to analyse the plurality and dynamism of the mobilizations deployed in a particular context of conflict. The analysis shows, firstly, how the urban movements developed in El Cabanyal have promoted alternatives that move from the normative to the subversive, giving rise to a broad and diverse range of social action. And secondly, how the positions between the different movements (alliances/hostilities) and their position with public institutions (collaboration/opposition) have been changing throughout the conflict depending on political opportunities and social conditions. These changes would respond to a variety of tactics that seek to achieve the success of some of their claims.