The Urban Land Institute ( ULI ) awarded the Battery Park City Master Plan its 2010 Heritage Award, for having " facilitated the private development of 9. 3 million square feet of commercial space, 7. 2 million square feet of residential space, and nearly 36 acres of open space in lower Manhattan, becoming a model for successful large-scale planning efforts and marking a positive shift away from the urban renewal mindset of the time.

A New Theory of Urban Design ( 1987 ) coincided with a renewal of interest in urbanism among architects, but stood apart from most other expressions of this by assuming a distinctly anti-masterplanning stance.

* Urban regeneration, another term for urban renewal

Urban planning can include urban renewal, by adapting urban planning methods to existing cities suffering from decline.

* Urban renewal

A factor in the increase in urban poor along Colfax has been linked to Denver Urban Renewal Authority's plans for urban renewal in Downtown Denver.

Urban renewal projects in the 1950s and 1960s cleared entire blocks of housing in the Center City and East Side areas.

Urban renewal efforts in the 1970s transformed downtown Lawton.

The federal Housing and Urban Development ( HUD ) department's 1993 HOPE VI program addressed concerns of distressed properties and blighted superblocks with revitalization and funding projects for the renewal of public housing to decrease its density and allow for tenants with mixed income levels.

During a campaign of urban renewal by the Yaoundé Urban Council in Cameroon, the cross was popularly referred to as " Tsimi's Cross " after the Government Delegate to Yaoundé Urban Council Gilbert Tsimi Evouna.

Urban renewal areas like Docklands, Southbank, St Kilda Road and Port Melbourne are now predominately apartments.

Urban renewal from 1966 onwards has resulted in the replacement of all buildings pictured.

Urban renewal is a program of land redevelopment in areas of moderate to high density urban land use.

Urban renewal may involve relocation of businesses, the demolition of structures, the relocation of people, and the use of eminent domain ( government purchase of property for public purpose ) as a legal instrument to take private property for city-initiated development projects.

Urban renewal has been seen by proponents as an economic engine and a reform mechanism, and by critics as a mechanism for control.

" " Urban renewal " was a phrase popularized with the passage of the 1954 Housing Act, which made these projects more enticing to developers, by among other things, providing FHA-backed mortgages.

Some of the policies around urban renewal began to change under President Lyndon Johnson and the War on Poverty, and in 1968, the Housing and Urban Development Act and The New Communities Act of 1968 guaranteed private financing for private entrepreneurs to plan and develop new communities.

Urban renewal sometimes lives up to the hopes of its original proponents – it has been assessed by politicians, urban planners, civic leaders, and residents – it has played an undeniably important role.

Urban renewal is usually non-consultative.

Urban renewal continues to evolve as successes and failures are examined and new models of development and redevelopment are tested and implemented.

Urban renewal and gentrification began to take effect in NYC including Crown Heights.

Urban renewal began in earnest 2000, with several independent privately developed areas overseen by VicUrban, an agency of the State government of Victoria.

During the late 1960s / early 1970s, numerous buildings were constructed as part of a major urban renewal project, such as the Pullen Library ( 1966 ), Classroom South ( 1968 ), the expansion of the Pullen Library in 1968, the Arts and Humanities Building ( 1970 ), the ten-story General Classroom Building ( 1971 ), the Sports Arena ( 1973 ), and the twelve-story Urban Life Building ( 1974 ).

22 projects costing above $ 500 million have been sanctioned under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission for the development of Bhopal, Indore, Jabalpur and Ujjain.

The Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 provided $ 375 million for large-scale urban public or private rail projects in the form of matching funds to cities and states and created the Urban Mass Transit Administration ( now the Federal Transit Administration ).

DPZ ’ s projects have received numerous awards, including two National AIA Awards, the Thomas Jefferson Award, the Vincent Scully Prize and two Governor ’ s Urban Design Awards for Excellence.

In the mid-1990s, the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ( HUD ) adopted the principles of the New Urbanism in its multi-billion dollar program to rebuild public housing projects nationwide.

In August 2007, the United States Department of Transportation selected five metropolitan areas to initiate congestion pricing demonstration projects under the Urban Partnerships Congestion Initiative, for US $ 1 billion of federal funding.

Urban planners were consulted to lay out the entire town, an undertaking that predated later projects in Plano, Allen and other suburbs.

* Urban Renewal in the Netherlands ( the policy, projects, links )

Funded by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, ( HUD ) as one of thirteen model city projects under the Urban Growth and New Community Development Act, it was located on 5000 acres ( 20 km² ) in Warren County, near Manson.

Urban redevelopment projects such us Pruitt – Igoe in St. Louis concentrated and separated workers from their surroundings and work.

Following an investigation ordered by Federal Judge Norberto Oyarbide, the Secretary of Public Works canceled the Sueños Compartidos contract in August and transferred the outstanding projects to the Undersecretary of Housing and Urban Development.

Urban agricultural projects are beginning to open a new labor market in areas that have been negatively affected by industrial outsourcing of jobs.

Creative residency and commissioning projects for artists include: Bill T. Jones, Anne Bogart and the SITI Company, Big Art Group, Ann Hamilton ( in collaboration with Meg Stuart and subsequently with Meredith Monk ), Improbable Theatre, Bebe Miller, The Builders Association, Akram Khan, Elizabeth Streb, Eiko and Koma, The Wooster Group, Savion Glover, Urban Bush Women, Anthony Davis, Richard Maxwell, da da kamera, Mark Morris, Young Jean Lee's Theater Company, and Kronos Quartet.

Successful events and projects include the May 2009 2nd Annual E-Recycling Day, resulting in 155 tons of electronic items collected, and the Tiger Initiative for Gardening in Urban Settings ( TIGUrS ), a fruit and vegetable gardening initiative across campus.

There are currently some projects to establish an Urban Community for the whole metropolitan area, crossing borders, but this transnational structure has not been created yet.

Morial was responsible for getting federal Urban Development Action Grant ( UDAG ) funding for several major projects, including Canal Place and the Jax Brewery development in the French Quarter.

The Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 passed Congress, which promised 66 % federal funding for urban mass transportation projects.

Urban programs also involve sectors of the community in health-related projects such as the Green Gym program, developed in the UK by BTCV.

The more general meaning, as set out above, involved projects starting in the early seventies, documented by the Urban Institute in the 1974 book Para-transit: Neglected options for urban mobility, followed a year later by the first international overview, Paratransit: Survey of International Experience and Prospects.