Meaning of urban-renew | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To carry out urban renewal; to redevelop an urban area.
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2. To make something or someone more urban in character; to urbanize.
   rare
3. To undergo urban renewal; to be redeveloped.
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Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“& 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.”

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