urban-renew

present singular third person urban-renews · participle present urban-renewing · participle past urban-renewed · past urban-renewed · alternative urban renew

1. rareTo carry out urban renewal; to redevelop an urban area.
2. rareTo make something or someone more urban in character; to urbanize.

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

   2011, Jini Kim Watson, The New Asian City: Three-Dimensional Fictions of Space and Urban Form, →ISBN, page 197

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   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.

   1982, William K. Tabb, The Long Default: New York City and the Urban Fiscal Crisis, →ISBN, page 12

   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.

   1996, Neil Smith, The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City, →ISBN, page 25

3. rareTo undergo urban renewal; to be redeveloped.

   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.

   2013, Fuling Bian, Xiaohui Cui, Yichun Xie, Yixin Zeng, editors, Geo-Informatics in Resource Management and Sustainable Ecosystem, volume 2, →ISBN, page 96