Heritage may also, usually indirectly, cause the loss or weakening of social capital
due to conflicts between heritage conservation and local development goals, the role it
plays in gentrification or its dysfunctional use. First of all different actors may have
diametrically opposed visions of local development, ranging from development based
on preservation and local use of heritage or development focused on its external
(i.e. tourist) users to wishing to completely exclude heritage from local development as
a burden rather than a development asset. Urban conservation may in addition be seen
as an important aspect of the social class struggle in the city (Lees et al., 2008).