urban-renew
See also: urban renew
English
editEtymology
editBack-formation from urban renewal.
Verb
editurban-renew (third-person singular simple present urban-renews, present participle urban-renewing, simple past and past participle urban-renewed)
- (rare) To carry out urban renewal; to redevelop an urban area.
- (rare) To make something or someone more urban in character; to urbanize.
- 1982, William K. Tabb, The Long Default: New York City and the Urban Fiscal Crisis[1], →ISBN, page 12:
- 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.
- 1996, Neil Smith, The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City[2], →ISBN, page 25:
- 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.
- (rare, of an urban area) To undergo urban renewal; to be redeveloped.
- 2013, Fuling Bian, Xiaohui Cui, Yichun Xie, Yixin Zeng, editors, Geo-Informatics in Resource Management and Sustainable Ecosystem[4], volume 2, →ISBN, page 96:
- 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.