urban renewal
Example Sentences
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It officially inaugurated the continent's largest dam last year and extensive urban renewal projects are underway in Addis Ababa and other major cities.
From Barron's • Jan. 10, 2026
When urban renewal bulldozed those communities, the benefits vanished.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025
Downtown boosters promoted an urban renewal project that would have demolished most of the Market.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2024
All that began to unravel in the 1960s when urban renewal projects brought freeway construction that severed Chinatown from the rest of the city and forced mass displacement of residents.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 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
