Complete Streets represent conscious attempts to remake place-specific urban infrastructures in ways to enable low carbon pathways. But they help us understand at the same time that the production of carbon pathways – high or low – has the patterns of urban development at their heart. How we make space available for specific types of mobility, including whether we enable people to access daily resources and amenities without needing to travel large distances, is key to the carbon trajectories of cities. Attempts to shift these sorts of mobilities have, as was seen in Chapter 5, generated powerful conflicts. In this chapter, we see that these conflicts over how we move about, and the infrastructures that enable that movement, have parallels in conflicts over where we live, and the decisions about where new buildings go up, what types of buildings go up, and who gets to make those planning decisions. In Ottawa, as in many North American cities, these conflicts have been over the term ‘intensification’, a specific bit of planning language, loosely focused on increasing urban density, around which much contestation has occurred (see also Leffers and Ballamingie 2013; Leffers 2015a, 2015b).