Sentence examples for clearance project from inspiring English sources

The site of the Pompidou Center was originally razed in 1939 as part of a slum clearance project, for example.

For Strauss, it was all part of a massive clearance project, meant to return philosophy to its ancient founders, Plato and Aristotle.

It became a rag warehouse in the 1950s and was scheduled for demolition as part of a slum clearance project in the 1960s, until a campaign led by John Betjeman saw it grade II* listed in 1971.

Scottish Natural Heritage, which is part-funding the Colonsay clearance project, says it is the way the plant affects habitats - restricting growth on open moorland, heathland, coastal habitats and oak woodland - that causes the biggest problem.

It is a problem faced by other communities on the west coast of Scotland and many other parts of the UK — notably Wales and the Derbyshire Peak District, where a 10-year clearance project was launched in 2002 after rhododendrons spread over a wide area.

The supplement was laudatory of the nine Pathfinder housing clearance projects in the Midlands and north.

Killingworth is a satellite town north of Newcastle created in part to accommodate people moved from slum clearance projects in Byker, at a time when government at all levels still used words such as "slum" and "clearance".

In an eerie echo of the slum clearance projects of the 1960s, government officials are once again denying that these projects and communities can be salvaged through a human, incremental approach to planning.

Built with generous city and state subsidies, Met Life's project pioneered the practice of urban renewal, serving as the inspiration for similar slum clearance projects like Penn South, Lincoln Towers and Washington Square Village.

To many, the plan is reminiscent of the wholesale slum clearance projects of the 1950's, which fell out of favor after many cities were left with thousands of displaced poor people and acres of vacant lots.

A complex portrait of the man who ruled New York's urban development for more than half a century, the show made a strong case that Moses' vast infrastructure and slum clearance projects were a nuanced mix of good and bad, as opposed to the outright evil depicted in other accounts.