Haussmannization

From Haussmann +‎ -ization, after Baron Haussmann.

Haussmannization (plural Haussmannizations)

1. The creative destruction of something for the betterment of society.
   • 1989, James Holston, chapter 2, in The Modern City: An Anthropological Critique of Brasilia, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 48:

     In second place, the Haussmannization or evisceration of the central quarters of numerous European cities did not solve the problem of mass housing or provide for the kind of egalitarian distribution of urban resources CIAM proposed.