Usually means: Redesign cities for modernization, aesthetics.
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  1. haussmannize: Collins English Dictionary
  2. haussmannize: Wordnik
  3. Haussmannize: Wiktionary
  4. haussmannize: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words

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  1. Haussmannize: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Haussmannize)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To destroy the old in order to build the new (in the manner of Baron Haussmann's rebuilding of Paris).

Similar:
Parisianize, redevelop, boulevardize, urbanize, make up, embourgeoise, townscape, make over, renovise, frenchify, more...

Opposite:
de-urbanize, de-modernize, de-develop

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Similar:
Parisianize, redevelop, boulevardize, urbanize, make up, embourgeoise, townscape, make over, renovise, frenchify, more...

Opposite:
de-urbanize, de-modernize, de-develop



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