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urban renewal

urban renewal noun: a process where older areas of a city are redeveloped, including slum clearance, replacement of outdated buildings and infrastructure.

Noun

urban renewal (countable and uncountable, plural urban renewals)

  1. (uncountable) A process where older areas of a city are redeveloped, including slum clearance, replacement of outdated buildings and infrastructure.
    • There are nearly 700 bomb shelters in this city of 360,000 people, leading officials to declare that Keelung has a higher density of places to hide than anywhere else in heavily fortified Taiwan. And for a loosely organized band of urban planners, artists and history lovers, Keelung’s bomb shelters...2022 November 6, Damien Cave, Amy Chang Chien, “Taiwan’s Bomb Shelters: ‘A Space for Life. And a Space for Death.’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Nov 2022...
  2. (countable) A specific instance in which this process is used.

urban renewal meaning in Tamil, Malay and Indonesian

urban renewal in Tamil

நகரம் புதுப்பித்தல்

urban renewal in Malay

redevelopment of urban areas
pembaharuan urban

urban renewal in Indonesian

redevelopment of urban areas
peremajaan kota

Synonyms of urban renewal

Forms of urban renewal

pluralurban renewals

Words formed from urban renewal

Questions about urban renewal

What does urban renewal mean?
Urban renewal means a process where older areas of a city are redeveloped, including slum clearance, replacement of outdated buildings and infrastructure.
What is urban renewal in Tamil?
Urban renewal in Tamil is நகரம் புதுப்பித்தல். See Urban renewal meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is urban renewal?
Urban renewal is a noun.
What is the plural of urban renewal?
The plural of urban renewal is urban renewals.

Words near urban renewal in the dictionary

  1. urban plannings
  2. urban prairie
  3. urban prairies
  4. urban regeneration
  5. urban renew
  6. urban renewal
  7. urban renewals
  8. urban renewed
  9. urban renewing
  10. urban renews
  11. urban reserve

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Adapted from Wiktionary: urban renewal (page history and authors); urban renewal (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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