Based on a ethnographic approach of the public space, this article aims to highlight both the necessity and limits of convivialism in town. Focusing on diversely marginalised urban dwellers (unstable elderly persons, homeless, graffiti artist, etc.), the study underlines several social relations of domination, stigmatisation and normalisation which governs public space management. Far from the convivial city, respective to convivialists definition, the contemporary city’s production is always subject to securitisation and commodification processes. In this regard, the “right to the city” is called into question.