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urban-renewing

urban-renewing is the present participle and gerund of urban-renew.

Meaning of 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
  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

Questions about urban-renewing

What is urban-renewing the present participle and gerund of?
Urban-renewing is the present participle and gerund of urban-renew.

Words near urban-renewing in the dictionary

  1. urban warfare
  2. urban warrior
  3. urban warriors
  4. urban-renew
  5. urban-renewed
  6. urban-renewing
  7. urban-renews
  8. Urban-Rogers-Meyer syndrome
  9. urban-rural commune
  10. urban-rural communes
  11. urban-rural gmina

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