How to Use urbanist in a Sentence

urbanist

noun

• Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman aren’t the sort of urbanists to get squeamish over a little raw sewage.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, latimes.com, 23 May 2018
• In any case, the house becomes not less important, as some urbanists suggest, but more so—not only as a safe haven but a place of work.
  — Joel Kotkin, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2020
• Such stories delight urbanists, who want to make LA less dependent on the car.
  — The Economist, 6 Feb. 2020
• For urbanists, the greatest bottleneck is how to process this data.
  — Annette M. Kim, The Atlantic, 5 June 2018
• In that shift, urbanists see a chance to save city dwellers not just from the sweep of a pandemic, but from the auto-centric culture that has dominated urban life for decades.
  — Alex Davies, Wired, 13 Apr. 2020
• As urbanists and preservationists attempted to save the historic structure, the DDA spent $12 million to raze it.
  — Micah Walker, Detroit Free Press, 7 Nov. 2019
• Now, some environmentalists and urbanists hope to see the same thing happen with I-794 on downtown's southern edge.
  — Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 14 Sep. 2022
• The idea has roots going back decades, but Carlos Moreno, an urbanist based in Paris, started honing the theory's current iteration in 2010.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 10 Apr. 2023
• Transportation experts and urbanists of a more traditional stripe have been less than impressed.
  — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2018
• Though the pandemic may have tainted city life for some, most urbanists will tell you that contrary to popular conception, urban density isn’t the problem.
  — Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic, 9 June 2020
• Still, if the circumstances are right, some urbanists say, these more-unorthodox uses can help get rid of empty office space — perhaps just as well as turning those buildings into apartments.
  — Teo Armus, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2023
• When the world’s most famous mayor writes off the U.S. government as a partner in the battle for clean air and the world’s most famous urbanist falls back on a set of tooth-fairy political fixes, then maybe cities’ best option really is despair.
  — Justin Davidson, Daily Intelligencer, 7 May 2017
• In many regions, the strategy of building station garages triggers second-guessing by pro-transit urbanists.
  — Mike Lindblom, The Seattle Times, 15 Sep. 2017
• In Playa Vista, a dense neighborhood of new-urbanist condominiums has popped up on land once owned by the eccentric aerospace innovator Howard Hughes.
  — Geoff Manaugh, The Atlantic, 17 May 2018
• Gracie McKenzie shares three of today’s top stories: Meet nature’s newest urbanist: the octopus.
  — Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, 21 Sep. 2017
• And urbanists fear the temporary soccer fields could interfere with future plans to possibly remove the interstate.
  — Dallas News, 22 May 2020
• Peter Gorman’s Greenwood apartment is the home base for a print operation that has urbanists all over the internet joking that Seattle’s intersections are wacky as heck.
  — Jessica Lee, The Seattle Times, 31 Aug. 2017
• The other form of disillusionment has to do with a growing concern among urbanists that AVs will, by making personal-vehicle travel so much more convenient, induce more of it.
  — David Roberts, Vox, 27 Mar. 2018
• At the same time, developers have argued that adding apartments or offices on small sites in mixed-use districts would be difficult if too much surface parking was required, and urbanists have pushed for less accommodation of cars.
  — Jon Murray, The Denver Post, 21 Feb. 2017
• Proponents included urbanists, labor unions, homebuilders and the AARP.
  — USA TODAY, 4 July 2019
• Further abroad, urbanists look longingly to Barcelona, where voters recently banned many automobiles from the city center, or to Amsterdam, famous for its … bike lanes.
  — Nic Garcia, The Denver Post, 25 July 2019
• Adrees Latif/Reuters For years, Houston has been the darling of certain urbanists and economists who have celebrated its robust growth, low housing prices, and multiculturalism.
  — Henry Grabar, Slate Magazine, 31 Aug. 2017
• The exchange triggered a broader Twitter debate about Musk’s opinions on transit, with much of the discourse coming from city planners and urbanists who have long eyed Musk’s dream of individualized transit with suspicion.
  — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2017
• But projects like this remain rare, even as urbanists increasingly see urban highway removal as a key to improving civic life and reducing inequality.
  — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 12 June 2017
• In response, environmentalists and urbanists last year launched a public campaign to instead remove both those older and newer freeway stretches.
  — Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 26 June 2023
• In response, environmentalists and urbanists last year launched a public campaign to instead remove both those older and newer freeway stretches.
  — Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 12 July 2023
• The e-commerce giant's mere announcement on Thursday has sent hearts aflutter among politicians, urbanists, real estate brokers and developers — and, yes, journalists.
  — Ryan Ori, chicagotribune.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• And despite assurances from transportation officials, urbanists fear the soccer fields could interfere with future plans to possibly remove the interstate.
  — Dallas News, 27 May 2020
• The organization—and its founder, urbanist Jan Gehl—believe that a thriving public life is essential for health, equity, and democratic participation.
  — Diana Budds, Curbed, 31 May 2018
• Meanwhile, the writings of historian and urbanist Lewis Mumford informed Biosphere 2’s explorations of the natural world and technology working harmoniously together to support human life.
  — Diana Budds, Curbed, 11 July 2019

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024