urban-renew
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.68 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To carry out urban renewal; to redevelop an urban area.
verb
To undergo urban renewal; to be redeveloped.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "& the tide which is being urban-renewed / at bedok^([sic]) must go on its own tidy ways"
- "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."
Etymology
Back-formation from urban renewal.