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urban renewal
noun [U] (also inner city renewal)Definition
› ENVIRONMENT, PROPERTY the process of making a poor area of a city attractive for people to live and work in again by building new houses, offices, schools, etc. and improving the existing ones: urban renewal area/district/project The city has created three urban renewal areas in the past five years.
(Definition of urban renewal noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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