Urban renewal is a program of land redevelopment often used to address urban decay in cities. Urban renewal involves the clearing out of blighted areas in inner cities in favour of new housing, businesses, and other developments.
Melbourne Docklands urban renewal project, a transformation of a large disused docks area into a new residential and commercial precinct for 25,000 people
1999 photograph looking northeast on Chicago's Cabrini–Green housing project, one of many urban renewal efforts
A project named Puerto Madero in Buenos Aires, transformed a large disused dock into a new luxury residential and commercial district.
Clearing large areas of South Brisbane in 1987 to make way for World Expo 88.
Redevelopment is any new construction on a site that has pre-existing uses. It represents a process of land development uses to revitalize the physical, economic and social fabric of urban space.
An abandoned building in Washington, D.C. being converted into luxury condominiums.