urban renewal
Example Sentences
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Lagos state officials say the demolition was necessary for safety and urban renewal reasons.
From Barron's • Jan. 16, 2026
When urban renewal bulldozed those communities, the benefits vanished.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025
As one of the oldest neighborhoods in Los Angeles, it has shape-shifted over the last 140 years under the forces of urban renewal and gentrification, as well as the unjust wartime incarceration of its residents.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2024
Downtown boosters promoted an urban renewal project that would have demolished most of the Market.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2024
Entire neighborhoods disappeared into the insatiable maw of urban renewal, displacing residents into an already tight housing market.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
