city planning

noun

1. 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.

city planning

noun

1. the US term for town planning

Derived Forms

• city planner, noun

Other Words From

• city planner noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of city planning¹

First recorded in 1910–15

Example Sentences

The cameras are still on, but the program is temporarily on pause, held up nationally as an example of how not to incorporate technology into city planning.

From Voice of San Diego

If the results are widely seen as flawed, it could cloud a decade of political reshuffling, federal spending, city planning, academic research, and private and public enterprise that rely on census data.

From Washington Post

Nuro’s vehicles don’t carry passengers, so the design features focus more on the safety of people outside of the vehicle, the aggregate data of which could be useful in human-centered city planning.

From TechCrunch

Nico Calavita is professor emeritus in the graduate program in city planning at SDSU.

From Voice of San Diego

One of the more immediate uses for AI in city planning is to understand the impact of urban design at a global scale.

From MIT Technology Review

The publication will issue also some special bibliographies such as the one that was issued recently on city planning.

From Project Gutenberg

Nowadays we hear much about planning—town planning, city planning, nation planning.

From Project Gutenberg

M. de Queylus interested himself in city planning also and he mapped out the lines on which the city should extend.

From Project Gutenberg

There is a similar disposition today to procrastinate in all city planning and health movements.

From Project Gutenberg

City planning has long been an accepted principle for service in the more progressive larger centers.

From Project Gutenberg