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city planner

  • a word derived from city planning.
    city planning
    noun
    the activity or profession of determining the future physical arrangement and condition of a community, involving an appraisal of the present condition, a forecast of future requirements, a plan for the fulfillment of these requirements, and proposals for constructional, legal, and financial programs to implement the plan.

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A city planner informed her that the comment period had closed in September 2024, according to the emails.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

The late city planner Alexander Garvin used to tell his students at Yale about the genius of Frederick Law Olmsted’s Central Park Mall.

From Slate Jul. 23, 2025

“Something catastrophic is imminent,” Ara Mihranian, a city planner, told The Times in March.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2023

When Joe Seaman-Graves, the city planner for the working class town of Cohoes, New York, Googled the term “floating solar,” he didn’t even know it was a thing.

From Washington Times May 10, 2023

The great square showed plainly that some architect or city planner with a love of classic lines had been in charge here.

From Man of Many Minds by E. Everett (Edward Everett) Evans

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