0 the improvement and sometimes replacement of buildings in a city, especially of whole neighbourhoods of housing
1 the replacement of buildings in a city, esp. of whole neighborhoods of housing
2 the process of making a poor area of a city attractive for people to live and work in again by building new houses, offices, schools, etc. and improving the existing ones:
In 1962 a local form of urban renewal which involved building public housing was rejected by the electorate.
In the discourse of this critical modernism, labour rights and civic rights were interrelated and constituted the fundamental building blocks of sustainable urban renewal.
For many such historians the great age of urban renewal has been from the mid-nineteenth century.
And apart from some local regularization attempts in the areas destroyed by fire, no major urban renewal projects were implemented.
At the same time they also seek to stimulate young people to influence and participate in a process of urban renewal open to all citizens.
In this book the authors argue an empassioned case for the inclusion of older people, and for a sensitive consideration of their needs, in urban renewal planning.
This multi-faceted community, however, was by the 1940s rapidly eroding: older-established immigrant families moved out, and the residue was dispossessed in the 1950s by 'urban renewal'.
Suppose the government had a large portfolio of investment projects that are ready to be implemented, projects concerning public housing, urban renewal, urban transportation, high-speed communication, what not.
