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Urban renewal

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  1. 1
    A process where older areas of a city are redeveloped, including slum clearance, replacement of outdated buildings and infrastructure. uncountable

    "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. 2
    the clearing and rebuilding and redevelopment of urban slums wordnet
  3. 3
    A specific instance in which this process is used. countable

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