urban renewal

English

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 (uncountable) A process where older areas of a city are redeveloped, including slum clearance, replacement of outdated buildings and infrastructure.
   • 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^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 November 2022, Taiwan Dispatch‎^[2]:

     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 have become a canvas — for creative urban renewal and civil defense.

2. (countable) A specific instance in which this process is used.

Synonyms

• urban regeneration (UK)
• urban renew

Derived terms

• urban-renew

Related terms

• urban blight
• urban planning
• urban studies

 

Translations

redevelopment of urban areas

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 市區翻新／市区翻新 (shìqū fānxīn), 市區重建／市区重建 (shìqū chóngjiàn), 市區更新／市区更新 (shìqū gēngxīn), 城市更新 (chéngshì gēngxīn), 城市改造 (chéngshì gǎizào)

• Danish: byfornyelse c
• Dutch: stadsvernieuwing (nl) f
• Finnish: kaupunkirakenteen kehittäminen
• French: renouvellement urbain (fr) m, rénovation urbaine (fr) f
• German: Stadtsanierung f
• Indonesian: peremajaan kota (id)
• Malay: pembaharuan urban
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: byfornyelse m, byfornying m or f

  Nynorsk: byfornying f

• Spanish: renovación urbana f
• Swedish: stadsförnyelse c

See also

• demolition
• displacement
• gentrification