How to Use urban renewal in a Sentence

urban renewal

noun

• In the 1950s, they were destroyed in the name of urban renewal.
  — Robert Samuels, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2019
• 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
• New York didn’t look like that even in the age of urban renewal.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 16 Dec. 2021
• So far the team has mapped about 600 urban renewal projects.
  — National Geographic, 15 Dec. 2017
• 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
• Then urban renewal came to our block and we were all hastily forced to move away.
  — Rubén Rosario, Twin Cities, 21 June 2019
• 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
• The new garage next door is an urban renewal project, while the arts center itself is a city project.
  — oregonlive, 10 Dec. 2020
• 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
• New Haven had been held up as a model of urban renewal.
  — Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 19 May 2024
• Moses-style urban renewal was copied all over the United States.
  — CBS News, 23 Oct. 2022
• White Tulsa again destroyed it, this time, through urban renewal in the 1960s.
  — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 16 June 2021
• 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 blighted area was in danger of being razed and developed for urban renewal by the City of Ashland in the 1960s.
  — oregonlive, 30 Oct. 2020
• South Side was designed in 2015 with urban renewal in mind.
  — Lynn Redmile, Good Housekeeping, 20 Oct. 2020
• The postcard city's bid for the Olympics drew inspiration from Barcelona's urban renewal with the 1992 games.
  — David Biller and Mauricio Savarese, Star Tribune, 13 July 2021
• Giuliani’s election was part of a wave of urban renewal across the country.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2022
• The council passed the trio of bills, 14-1, in early March, including two that amend zoning law and the city’s urban renewal plan.
  — Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 1 May 2024
• 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
• 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
• Before the Goose could open, Clark got a city letter saying the Spatenhaus would be torn down for urban renewal.
  — oregonlive, 1 Feb. 2022
• In the case of the Gateway — the skid-row district razed in the early 1960s for urban renewal — the pictures show us little but bars, liquor stores and flophouses.
  — James Lileks, Star Tribune, 16 July 2021
• 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
• 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
• The trust was established in 1984 as part of an urban renewal effort.
  — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 1 May 2024
• It is now filled with suburban style homes with lawns, a fabled tale of urban renewal.
  — New York Times, 31 May 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
• 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
• In the 1970s, most of Chinatown’s buildings were razed for urban renewal.
  — Dana Oland, idahostatesman, 26 Jan. 2018
• 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

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024