city planner
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a word derived from
city planning.
city planningnounthe 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.
Example Sentences
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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