Knowra Urban renewal Urban renewal Urban renewal is government-led redevelopment that clears or substantially reshapes existing urban areas, often through land assembly, demolition, and new construction.
Eminent domain : The government power to take private property for public use, subject to legal limits and compensation. It can assemble land for redevelopment when owners will not sell voluntarily.
Urban reform : Efforts to address urban poverty, unhealthy housing, and inadequate public services through social and physical change. Reform movements supplied early justifications for reshaping crowded city districts.
Pruitt–Igoe : A public-housing complex in St. Louis, Missouri, demolished between 1972 and 1976. Its clearance became a prominent symbol in debates about public housing and renewal.
Historic preservation : The identification, protection, and maintenance of buildings, sites, and districts with historical significance. Preservation prioritizes retaining valued places that renewal may remove.
Urban planning : The process of shaping land use, infrastructure, and development across towns and cities. Plans define which districts are targeted and what may replace existing neighborhoods.
City Beautiful movement : An American urban-planning movement that promoted monumental civic design, parks, and orderly streets. Its vision of improvement linked physical redesign with civic and social uplift.
Lincoln Center : A performing-arts complex on Manhattan's Upper West Side, built as part of a major urban redevelopment project. Its construction required large-scale clearance in a working-class neighborhood.
Community development : Collective efforts to improve local economic, social, and physical conditions with community participation. It can direct investment toward residents and existing places rather than replacing them.
Land readjustment : A redevelopment method that pools land parcels, reconfigures them, and returns smaller plots to owners. It can reorganize urban blocks without relying entirely on clearance and compulsory purchase.
Housing Act of 1949 : A United States federal law that funded public housing and urban redevelopment programs. It established federal support for local clearance and redevelopment projects.
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