urban renewal
the rehabilitation of city areas by renovating or replacing dilapidated buildings with new housing, public buildings, parks, roadways, industrial areas, etc., often in accordance with comprehensive plans.
Origin of urban renewal
1- Also called urban redevelopment.
Words Nearby urban renewal
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How to use urban renewal in a sentence
New York City’s massive push for roads, bridges, and urban renewal during the mid 20th century, for example, instigated a backlash against “big plans” that persists to this day.
Dubbed the “Section 112 credits program,” this initiative triggered a 2 to 1 federal matching grant for any urban renewal program on or near a college or university up to five years before the program even began.
Higher education’s racial reckoning reaches far beyond slavery | Davarian Baldwin | April 1, 2021 | Washington PostThe Haussmann urban-renewal project demolished old neighborhoods.
The subjects of his work range from mines, quarries, and shipping around the world to manufacturing and urban renewal in China.
And it does seem the High Line may become a new paradigm for urban renewal.
Communities engaged in urban renewal have doubled and renewal projects have more than tripled since 1953.
An historic new approach--urban renewal--now replaces piecemeal thrusts at slum pockets and urban blight.
British Dictionary definitions for urban renewal
the process of redeveloping dilapidated or no longer functional urban areas
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Cultural definitions for urban renewal (1 of 2)
Programs designed to clear, rebuild, and redevelop urban slums. Critics contend that although they bulldoze slums, urban renewal programs often have led to their replacement by office buildings and by apartment houses for the well-to-do.
Government-sponsored destruction of slum housing with a view to the construction of new housing.
Notes for urban renewal
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