The redevelopment of areas within a large city, typically involving the clearance of slums.
‘To get federal funds for urban renewal, cities had to find that the areas to be renewed were ‘blighted.’’
‘Mufamadi visited the taxi rank area and the park to unveil details of his department's urban renewal programme for the area.’
‘All such enterprises lead a tenuous existence at present, since the area is subject to the city's intense urban renewal pressures.’
‘It was devoted explicitly to urban renewal in this notorious slum region of the city.’
‘In Riverview near Ipswich, the Queensland Government's urban renewal program has reduced crime by more than 60 percent.’
‘This sounds like a much better way to help children than more urban renewal and ‘model cities.’’
‘A citizen's movement has sprung up in Leipzig to protest against the city's strategy for urban renewal.’
‘Suburban sprawl continued to dominate the metropolitan area, even though urban renewal had become the rationale for the sale of inner-city industrial land for housing.’
‘He said that the Corporation had encouraged land owners within the urban renewal area to develop their properties, and that this was clearly happening.’
‘On the topic of urban renewal, one historic city will be expanding.’
‘A number of residents I interviewed recalled the destabilizing effect of urban renewal on city neighborhoods.’
‘The meeting agreed that the items on the agenda should include unemployment, the attraction of industry, traffic management, housing and urban renewal.’
‘He said the City's urban renewal programme had made strides and the inner city was now experiencing an economic resurgence and improved confidence from business.’
‘Some of the cities have embarked on programmes of urban renewal, with varying degrees of success.’
‘Against the grains of popular convention, Jacobs exposed the havoc that highway building and urban renewal were wreaking on American cities.’
‘But the minister rejected these claims and said this latest funding is part of a six-year programme of urban renewal investment.’
‘The Councillor called on the Government to make urban renewal more attractive for developers.’
‘This is a reminder of the Romans, who took over the city in 106 AD and settled into several centuries of urban renewal.’
‘There was an unusual situation in the area in that one side of the street benefited from urban renewal while the opposite side did not.’
‘My parents stayed until their home was condemned for urban renewal in 1973.’
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