Urban-renew

Quick meaning: Urban-renew is a verb meaning (rare) To carry out urban renewal; to redevelop an urban area.

Meaning

(rare) To carry out urban renewal; to redevelop an urban area.

More Meanings

1. (rare) To make something or someone more urban in character; to urbanize.
2. (rare, of an urban area) To undergo urban renewal; to be redeveloped.

Example Sentences

& the tide which is being urban-renewed / at bedok^([sic]) must go on its own tidy ways

2) A large scale of residential land use occurred in the urban land use 3) Tangshan city urban renewed very fast in the first decade, and then slowed down.

In 1988 the City announced that the Lefrak Organization - a major national developer - would build on the Seward Park site where, in 1967, 1.800 poor people, mostly African-American and Latino, were displaced when their homes were urban renewed.

Nor, a decade later, when downtown elites—bankers, developers, and their allies—found it increasingly difficult to urban-renew racial minorities and ethnic white working-class families out of central city land, did they conspire to bring about a fiscal crisis.

Word Forms

• urban-renews
• urban-renewing
• urban-renewed

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include redevelop, rurbanize, reurbanize, urbanise, renovate, urbanize.

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