The illegal occupation of urban areas with disregard to geographical conditions becomes a challenge for Geodesign projects, since cultural patterns of occupation and inhabitants survival outweigh natural variables.This is particularly true in the large areas of illegal occupations seen in the urban periphery of Latin American cities, where government agencies and urban design professionals face a high demand for recovering severely affected environments.Design decisions cannot be completely reversed however restorative and recovery actions offer a sustainable solution for deprived urban environments.The opposite action of occupation displacement to have a full recovery of geographic features is a utopia.Applying this urban policy means displacement of population of millions.Today, urban specialists have begun using the concept of rescuing and restoring urban space, allowing them to shift from a sustainable design towards a restorative design.This leads to restoring actions on already developed areas and pinpoint interventions on leftover spaces.The policy of pinpoint interventions is based on the principle of recovering and using the urban interstice.We define urban interstice as a space without a precise use located between buildings, designers often call it leftover spaces.The use of GIS capabilities allows a full analysis and understanding of the urban interstice to propose a geo-friendly development using a policy of Urban Acupuncture.In this paper, we present examples of renewal projects for some poor areas in Venezuela, where we have successfully applied a Geodesign approach with variations of restoring space through urban acupuncture.In our experience, meetings with leaders who share the perception and viewpoints of the environment held by their community, invigorates the restorative design process.These values become the basis for deciding what is en vironmentally important or adequate for each community.