urban-renew

Verb

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.
   • 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.1982, William K. Tabb, The Long Default: New York City and the Urban Fiscal Crisis, →ISBN, page 12
   • 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.1996, Neil Smith, The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City, →ISBN, page 25
3. (rare) To undergo urban renewal; to be redeveloped.
   • 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.2013, Fuling Bian, Xiaohui Cui, Yichun Xie, Yixin Zeng, editors, Geo-Informatics in Resource Management and Sustainable Ecosystem, volume 2, →ISBN, page 96