urban regeneration
nounUK /ˈɜː.bən rɪˌdʒen.əˈreɪ.ʃən/
US /ˈɝː.bən rɪˌdʒen.əˈreɪ.ʃən/
Making an old, run-down part of a city new and nice again.
The city spent years on urban regeneration, turning the empty factories into parks and shops.
OTHER MEANINGS
2. The process of improving the physical, economic, and social conditions of a declining urban area.
Urban regeneration often brings new jobs and better housing to struggling neighborhoods.
3. Government or private programs that rebuild and modernize old city districts.
The urban regeneration program restored the historic waterfront and attracted new businesses.
4. The transformation of abandoned industrial sites into useful community spaces.
Urban regeneration turned the old docklands into a lively cultural quarter.