urban renewal

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urban renewal (countable and uncountable, plural urban renewals)

  1. (uncountable) A process where older areas of a city are redeveloped, including slum clearance, replacement of outdated buildings and infrastructure.
    • 2022 November 6, Damien Cave, Amy Chang Chien, “Taiwan’s Bomb Shelters: ‘A Space for Life. And a Space for Death.’”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 November 2022, Taiwan Dispatch‎[2]:
      There are nearly 700 bomb shelters in this city of 360,000 people, leading officials to declare that Keelung has a higher density of places to hide than anywhere else in heavily fortified Taiwan. And for a loosely organized band of urban planners, artists and history lovers, Keelung’s bomb shelters have become a canvas — for creative urban renewal and civil defense.
  2. (countable) A specific instance in which this process is used.

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