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
New Haven was a good place to study urban history: Its midcentury leaders strived to make it a “model city,” and deployed more per capita urban renewal money than in any city in the country.
From Slate • Sep. 21, 2025
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
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
