How to Use urban renewal in a Sentence

urban renewal

noun
  • New York didn’t look like that even in the age of urban renewal.
    — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Then urban renewal came to our block and we were all hastily forced to move away.
    — Rubén Rosario, Twin Cities, 21 June 2019
  • The new garage next door is an urban renewal project, while the arts center itself is a city project.
    — oregonlive, 10 Dec. 2020
  • With urban renewal projects all over town and a glut of bricks from the riots, there was plenty of work.
    — Maya Dukmasova, Chicago Reader, 2 May 2018
  • More recently, a large-scale urban renewal project has been put in place.
    — Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • What has occurred since those many years ago, politicians call urban renewal.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 24 June 2024
  • It is now filled with suburban style homes with lawns, a fabled tale of urban renewal.
    — New York Times, 31 May 2021
  • Giuliani’s election was part of a wave of urban renewal across the country.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Moses-style urban renewal was copied all over the United States.
    — CBS News, 23 Oct. 2022
  • In the 1950s, they were destroyed in the name of urban renewal.
    — Robert Samuels, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2019
  • Station Center has been on the city’s urban renewal agenda for more than a decade.
    — Tony Semerad, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Oct. 2020
  • Many of the buildings the class captured wouldn’t see the end of the decade, razed during postwar urban renewal.
    — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2022
  • It was billed as the centrepiece of an urban renewal plan, which over time would improve health care as more doctors stayed in the region.
    — The Economist, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Some of this was due to the destructive effects of urban renewal and displacement.
    — Gregory B. Fairchild, The Conversation, 19 June 2020
  • The same goes for overtly racist policies of the past that are no longer on the books, like urban renewal, redlining and blockbusting.
    — Justin Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Oct. 2021
  • The Meriden Hub mall was an urban renewal, um, bad idea built over a brook that was culverted.
    — Julie Lasky, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2020
  • After the athletes leave, the plan is to turn it into mixed-income housing and an engine of urban renewal.
    — Ellen Francis, Washington Post, 23 July 2024
  • The trust was established in 1984 as part of an urban renewal effort.
    — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 1 May 2024
  • Boston City Hall suffers from its setting, its neighbors, and the era of urban renewal in which it was built.
    — Anthony Flint, BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2019
  • That bridge, and the streetcars that ran along the street, was pulled apart by a much-vaunted urban renewal plan called the Charles Center.
    — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 19 Dec. 2020
  • By the time Guy was born, the neighborhood had been all but leveled in the name of urban renewal and rebuilt as public housing.
    — Jesse Barron, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Many of the earliest proponents of urban renewal were Yale-trained and Yale-based.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 10 Jan. 2018
  • White Tulsa again destroyed it, this time, through urban renewal in the 1960s.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 16 June 2021
  • Once, el Caserío Padre Rivera had been a place of fairy tales, promises of new beginnings and urban renewal.
    — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Ley got started in the antiquing business as a teenage orphan combing the streets of Louisville during its first urban renewal phase.
    — Jeffrey Lee Puckett, The Courier-Journal, 19 June 2018
  • Tulsa was one of the first cities in the US to embark on urban renewal in the 1960s.
    — Maria C. Hunt, House Beautiful, 1 June 2021
  • By 1971, the Royal was closed and demolished in the name of urban renewal.
    — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 23 Nov. 2024
  • Before the Goose could open, Clark got a city letter saying the Spatenhaus would be torn down for urban renewal.
    — oregonlive, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Then came redevelopment, in which much of the Fillmore was destroyed and rebuilt in the name of urban renewal.
    — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Nov. 2021
  • The subjects of gentrification and urban renewal are glimpsed through the fate of a jazz joint in this West Coast premiere.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2021

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