| Abstract | Sustainable development is at the heart of planning policies of Canadian cities. Reconciling heritage preservation and urban intensification, yet both on the agenda of sustainable development, involves negotiation skills from the municipalities between, on the one hand, residents' associations and, on the other hand, real estate companies. Each project involving modification of historic buildings requires a set of concessions from the various actors, able to mobilize a different set of defensive resources. In this paper, we propose to study the case of the district of Lower Town East, in Ottawa, where a eight-story building project, requiring the destruction of old houses in the name of urban intensification, has generated a strong mobilization of the citizens and the press. The case of Lower Town East is a perfect illustration of the difficult association between heritage and intensification. (English)
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