*Perspective Chapter: Reimaging Affordable Housing through Adaptive Reuse of Built Heritage DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.110072*

physical interventions to convert the building to new uses, providing the guiding design concept. The original building is considered critical to the adaptive reuse design strategy [27, 28]. In the Canadian context, the overarching strategy for protecting historic places is conservation, defined as all actions or processes that are aimed at safeguarding the character-defining elements of a historic place to retain its heritage value and extend its physical life. The three strategies for heritage conservation are preservation, rehabilitation and restoration, or any combination of these actions or processes.
