"With lush greenery bursting through the brick and concrete, turning urban jungles into literal ones."
"Urban renewal is a process in which local governments, usually with the financial support of state and federal governments, use eminent domain to seize and demolish blighted properties with the aim of restoring the economic viability of an area."
"Unfortunately, urban renewal didn't live up to its lofty idealistic goals. In reality, it was used as a means of slum clearance, in which entire historic neighborhoods were demolished in favor of wide arterial streets, parking lots, and modern interstates."
"When you hear of the word Detroit, what comes to mind? For most of us Americans, it's words like danger or blight. And while that does exist here, there is a downtown that is having a comeback, a renaissance if you will."
"Urban renewal is one of the biggest stains in American history as it destroyed so many communities."
"Liverpool's looking gorgeous these days, since they've done it up."
"Many cities in the belt region of the U.S. have struggled in the post-industrial age; Grand Rapids was no exception. However, since 2010, this western Michigan city has come back to life."
"People are recognizing that value has to be placed once again on the human condition in the city for it to be successful."
"Every tree that you see in the city of Berlin is younger than 1946 because in the winter of '46, every single tree inside the city borders was cut down for fuel."
"Your aim is to make this town fall in love with this high street again."
"He saved a city that everyone thought was beyond saving."
"Baltimore: offering $10,000 in down payment and closing cost assistance."
"We're gonna fight for the future of cities like Baltimore that have been destroyed by decades of failed and corruptible the left-wing agenda."
"Republicans want to rebuild our inner cities and provide a future of limitless opportunity for all Americans."
"This city is a blank canvas begging for us to paint it with our hopes and dreams."
"Detroit is on the come up right now... things are coming around for Detroit."
"What Joe is doing with the Bushwick collective is an amazing thing and that's the closest we have in New York City to a free wall."
"A picture of a repurposed underground car park in the Netherlands, complete with coffee and cake store."
"For Sally, this is another chapter in the rejuvenation of London's historical streets."
"The dream is alive and so today we celebrate the Revival and the resurrection of the city of Chicago."
"They literally destroyed their cities just about once every century."
"Its closure feels like Hong Kong has lost a part of itself."
"The heart of Kong has been obliterated by the urban renewal authority."
"We say give us some buildings, let us fix them up and help the needed people."
"Part of my work has been documenting the building of One World Trade Center from when it was a hole in the ground to when the first steel emerged to the grid going up and the sheathing in the glass which I bore witness to."
"We're finally protecting our nation, we are rebuilding our cities, and we are bringing our jobs, our factories, and our troops back home."
"If we use the tools of capitalism that we have, but in a much more restorative way, we can help people in low-status communities show that you don't have to move out of our neighborhoods to live in better ones."
"At the heart of Opportunity Zones is a belief that every American community is worth cherishing, protecting, and renewing."
"Instead of demolishing and building new structures just using what we have and hopefully making better places."
"A lot of people looked around St. Louis and wondered if the city ever could be renewed, reshaped or revived."
"The gays are just quietly fixing up all these shitty neighborhoods and not getting any credit. We should be parachuting them into Detroit, and, like, Flint, and lower La, the Bronx. Forget Maga, how about Fagga?"
"Liverpool is rocking again, and the canal which helped transform the city's fortunes is flourishing once more."
"...the biggest thing that I love about this whole experience of having these buildings side by side here is that it's kind of rejuvenated the neighborhood..."
"The community was bulldozed then rebuilt. 23,000 people and 1,400 businesses were displaced. The era of urban renewal had begun."
"Sydney we turned a boring drab concrete slab into Sydney's most renowned urban renewal project in recent memory"
"Nowadays Crown Street is beginning to come alive again."
"Urban renewal still exists today and it's very much a part of how urban development is done even in Colorado Springs."
"When cities implement revitalization programs and urban renewal policies, it can lead to gentrification."
"Urban renewal policy, but gentrification could be a consequence."
"An orange revolution, the moment Glasgow has been waiting for, and a city resumes its love affair with its little rolling."
"Tonight puts the focus back on the city in a positive way so it can turn the corner and the tourists will come back."
"Arden will be the least busy of the stations for a good while but that's the nature of an urban renewal project like this."
"The new river mouth will improve water quality, reduce flood risk, and add a massive amount of new naturalized green space."
"However, this has changed in recent years with many efforts to revitalize the city."
"This is the story of one of the most ambitious urban renewal projects in Australian history, transforming a 22-hectare former container port into a vital new dimension of this global city."
"Old San Juan has undergone a change that is phenomenal."
"This old playground would make an excellent skate park."
"The restoration of the LA River begins with a simple idea: that the river is of value."
"The High Line is a disused portion of elevated rail line that's been converted into a linear park."
"We should take this dingy old alley and make it something great and show that you can accomplish great things."
"The people of this once beautiful city have resolved that Chicago shall rise again."
"Thankfully, Carnaby Street has since spruced itself up and looks far smarter nowadays."
"In the face of decay, Detroit's residents are planting the seeds of change."
"The High Line has been transformed into a 1.45-mile-long aerial greenway that stretches from the Meatpacking District up to West 34th Street."
"London was in time rebuilt from the fetid medieval shantytown it had been into the gleaming metropolis we behold today."
"It's amazing to think that the old Gas Works, which sat on the riverbank for so many years, will be transformed into an Eden representing the journey that this city has been on."
"Phoenix cities do exist, a city like this that, no matter how much they try to destroy it, always rises from the ashes, rises intact."
"We're going to rebuild our cities and become a beacon of hope, safety, beauty, better than ever before."
"The rebirth of Seoul is one of mankind's truly great achievements."
"Regeneration is the physical improvement to a place, normally from investment from an external force."
"The city has been rescued in the last 10 years."
"Detroit has sort of been doing this revitalization thing downtown in recent years."
"Hundreds of kilometers of bike lanes have been built, iconic streets like this one have been turned over to pedestrians and cyclists, and automobiles removed."
"Downtown Detroit slowly coming back, the outskirts are still pretty scary, but I got to tell you, you know they have pockets, you know there's a gleam, gentlemen, there is a gleam."
"Nashville Restoration Project... they work with the city, they come in and they revitalize an entire area."
"Our downtown is my city. I was born and raised here, and I am sitting in this seat because I want to see this vibrant again."
"They took a risk on buying an office instead of being like, you know, big-shot lawyers somewhere else; they're here in Hell's Kitchen because they want to do good in their city and help it rebuild."
"It takes a visionary, and a wealthy visionary at that, like Dan Gilbert, to literally put that much effort and energy and resources into the downtown areas."
"It really has bounced back at a hell of a speed."
"The city got worse, but it's been rebuilding, and I've been playing my part."
"It's gonna be kind of cool to see how this once abandoned area is going to become a reclaimed public walking area."
"We really need to look at reusing these lands and in repairing them and making them urban areas with a new life."