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urban renewals

urban renewals is the plural of urban renewal.

Meaning of urban renewal

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 (uncountable) A process where older areas of a city are redeveloped, including slum clearance, replacement of outdated buildings and infrastructure.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.

Questions about urban renewals

What is urban renewals the plural of?
Urban renewals is the plural of urban renewal.

Words near urban renewals in the dictionary

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

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