How to Use urbanist in a Sentence
urbanist
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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
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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
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Such stories delight urbanists, who want to make LA less dependent on the car.
—The Economist, 6 Feb. 2020
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For urbanists, the greatest bottleneck is how to process this data.
—Annette M. Kim, The Atlantic, 5 June 2018
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Transportation experts and urbanists of a more traditional stripe have been less than impressed.
—Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2018
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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
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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
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In many regions, the strategy of building station garages triggers second-guessing by pro-transit urbanists.
—Mike Lindblom, The Seattle Times, 15 Sep. 2017
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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
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Gracie McKenzie shares three of today’s top stories: Meet nature’s newest urbanist: the octopus.
—Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, 21 Sep. 2017
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And urbanists fear the temporary soccer fields could interfere with future plans to possibly remove the interstate.
—Dallas News, 22 May 2020
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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
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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
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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
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Proponents included urbanists, labor unions, homebuilders and the AARP.
—USA TODAY, 4 July 2019
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Solving what ails American cities also requires urbanists and activists to acknowledge that not all real-estate development is automatically bad.
—Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2020
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The opposition includes environmental groups, urbanists and social justice organizations.
—Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 11 Mar. 2024
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