urban revitalization
Downtown comeback effort
Urban revitalization is the process of renewing deteriorated city areas through investment, development, and planning.
The term covers everything from renovating buildings to attracting businesses and improving infrastructure: The waterfront district underwent urban revitalization in the 1990s.
Critics note that revitalization often leads to gentrification, displacing longtime residents as property values rise.
- public artAccessible outdoor creative works
- zoningSectioning areas by use
- green spacesOutdoor vegetated public areas
- adaptive reuseRetrofitting buildings for new functions
- job creationEstablishing new work positions
public works · transportation · brownfield · vacant lot · local businesses · brick and mortar · anchor tenant · pop-up shop · gentrification · housing · entrepreneurship · waste management · social equity · civic pride · displacement · walkability · bike lane · sustainable architecture
- economic developmenteconomic development, jobs, rural development, urbanization, job creation
- urban planningcity planning, zoning map, master plans, zones, zoning reform
urban revitalizationurban decay
City infrastructure deterioration
urban blight · disinvestment · deindustrialization · white flight · capital flight
urban revitalizationsuburban sprawl
Unplanned outward residential development
urban sprawl · suburbanization · decentralization · urban flight