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.
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
Richard Schickel
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Many entities – from urban planners to design firms to consultancies – are at work blueprinting potential new takes on the once-beloved mall.
—Jeffrey Steele, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
Architects and urban planners are experimenting with intergenerational co-housing, where unrelated people of all ages share meals, responsibilities, space — and critically — their lives.
—Lisa Belzberg, New York Daily News, 25 Mar. 2025
So, as long as prisons and jails continue to exist, architects and urban planners must face the question of what a prison should look like.
—Abdallah Fayyad, Vox, 7 Mar. 2025
Throughout his career, the designer, painter, and urban planner created some of the early 20th century’s most important and iconic buildings, including a streamlined version of a traditional country house dubbed Villa Savoye built in the late 1920s outside of Paris.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 4 Feb. 2025
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Jeffrey Steele, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
Architects and urban planners are experimenting with intergenerational co-housing, where unrelated people of all ages share meals, responsibilities, space — and critically — their lives.
—Lisa Belzberg, New York Daily News, 25 Mar. 2025
So, as long as prisons and jails continue to exist, architects and urban planners must face the question of what a prison should look like.
—Abdallah Fayyad, Vox, 7 Mar. 2025
Throughout his career, the designer, painter, and urban planner created some of the early 20th century’s most important and iconic buildings, including a streamlined version of a traditional country house dubbed Villa Savoye built in the late 1920s outside of Paris.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 4 Feb. 2025
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“Urban planner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/urban%20planner. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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