urban renewal
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Head of Lagos's urban renewal office Gbolahan Oki did not respond to AFP requests for comment but told journalists in December that residents had been warned.
From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026
When urban renewal bulldozed those communities, the benefits vanished.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
By many accounts, they helped spark an urban renewal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2024
Moses was racist, but several of his urban renewal peers, like Ed Logue in Boston or Elizabeth Wood in Chicago, had sincere progressive motives for tearing down and rebuilding cities.
From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2024
When they built the expressways and had urban renewal, they destroyed a lot of that housing and built these high-rise buildings.
From "Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago" by LeAlan Jones
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