urban renewal

urban renewal (countable and uncountable, plural urban renewals)

1. (uncountable) A process where older areas of a city are redeveloped, including slum clearance, replacement of outdated buildings and infrastructure.
   • 2022 November 6, Damien Cave, Amy Chang Chien, “Taiwan’s Bomb Shelters: ‘A Space for Life. And a Space for Death.’”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 November 2022, Taiwan Dispatch‎:

     There are nearly 700 bomb shelters in this city of 360,000 people, leading officials to declare that Keelung has a higher density of places to hide than anywhere else in heavily fortified Taiwan. And for a loosely organized band of urban planners, artists and history lovers, Keelung’s bomb shelters have become a canvas — for creative urban renewal and civil defense.

2. (countable) A specific instance in which this process is used.

• urban regeneration (UK)
• urban renew

• urban-renew