urban renewal

1. 1.

   the clearing and rebuilding and redevelopment of urban slums

   Broaderreclamation

Questions about urban renewal

What does urban renewal mean?

urban renewal means "the clearing and rebuilding and redevelopment of urban slums".

Is urban renewal a common word?

urban renewal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.