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
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
It certainly isn’t because stadium-building leads to urban renewal or a robust expansion of employment opportunities.
From Slate • Jan. 31, 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
