urban planner

noun

: one whose job is to develop comprehensive plans and designs for the use of space within cities, towns, developments, etc.

The intense competition for space among residential, industrial, recreational, agricultural, and transportation interests presents a continual series of problems to the urban planner.—

Thomas Eugene Avery et al.

urban planning noun

Disney threw himself obsessively into the park's design, which anticipated many of the best features of modern urban planning … —

Richard Schickel

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Our urban planners think about how to design a more comfortable city. —

Joan Meiners, The Arizona Republic, 31 Dec. 2024 Behind the scenes, musicians turned urban planners like Fichman are seizing on that glimmer of hope. —

Katie Thornton, Rolling Stone, 20 Dec. 2024 By Amanda Ruggeri The first time that Megan Roth, an urban planner in Calgary, Canada, Googled independent play, her daughter had just received a number of toys for her second birthday. —

Amanda Ruggeri, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2024 Johnson lets readers hear directly from activists, farmers, urban planners, artists, journalists and lawyers on myriad solutions. —

Joe Spring, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for urban planner

Word History

First Known Use

1911, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of urban planner was in 1911

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“Urban planner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/urban%20planner. Accessed 11 Jan. 2025.

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