urban renewal
Example Sentences
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It officially inaugurated the continent's largest dam last year and extensive urban renewal projects are underway in Addis Ababa and other major cities.
From Barron's • Jan. 10, 2026
When urban renewal bulldozed those communities, the benefits vanished.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025
She’ll sublimate her own romantic heartache in urban renewal and other good works.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 25, 2025
Moses was racist, but several of his urban renewal peers, like Ed Logue in Boston or Elizabeth Wood in Chicago, had sincere progressive motives for tearing down and rebuilding cities.
From Slate • Sep. 16, 2024
The influx of federal urban renewal money was supposed to be a coup for Durham’s poor.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
