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urban-renew en · VERB

Etymology

Back-formation from urban renewal.

Meanings

1. (rare) To carry out urban renewal; to redevelop an urban area.
2. (rare) To 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:
   • 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. (of an urban area, rare) To 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:

Forms

Translations (9)

cmn 城市改造 (to carry out urban renewal) · da byforny (to carry out urban renewal) · cmn 市區翻新 /市区翻新 (to carry out urban renewal) · fi uudistaa (kaupunkia, kaupunginosaa, korttelia etc.) (to carry out urban renewal) · pl rewaloryzować zabudowę miejską (to carry out urban renewal) · cmn 市區重建 /市区重建 (to carry out urban renewal) · pl zrewaloryzować zabudowę miejską (to carry out urban renewal) · cmn 市區更新 /市区更新 (to carry out urban renewal) · cmn 城市更新 (to carry out urban renewal)