What are the rhythms that inhabit a city? Which are those that are unseen and could give an account of a more sustainable way of life? This article unfolds from the personal rhythm of a particular group of individuals: Self-Organized-Livelihood-Subjects (SOLOS) who singly make a living and a life trying to describe the rhythm to which they joyfully survive. Moving on from that apparently "unorganized" rhythm, we then portray groups of individuals Creative Communities (CC) that have formally organized iniciatives that improve not only their own livelihood but also the life of contemporary cities. This is part of mapping exercice that the DESIS* Network (Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability) has pursued