urban-renew

Back-formation from urban renewal.

urban-renew (third-person singular simple present urban-renews, present participle urban-renewing, simple past and past participle urban-renewed)

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.
   • 1982, William K. Tabb, The Long Default: New York City and the Urban Fiscal Crisis‎, →ISBN, page 12:

     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.

   • 1996, Neil Smith, The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City‎, →ISBN, page 25:

     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.

   • 2011, Jini Kim Watson, The New Asian City: Three-Dimensional Fictions of Space and Urban Form‎, →ISBN, page 197:

     & the tide which is being urban-renewed / at bedok^[sic] must go on its own tidy ways

3. (rare, of an urban area) To undergo urban renewal; to be redeveloped.
   • 2013, Fuling Bian, Xiaohui Cui, Yichun Xie, Yixin Zeng, editors, Geo-Informatics in Resource Management and Sustainable Ecosystem‎, volume 2, →ISBN, page 96:

     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.

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