urbanist

[ur-buh-nist]

noun

1. a person who is a specialist in urban planning.

Word History and Origins

Origin of urbanist¹

First recorded in 1515–25; urban + -ist

Example Sentences

Wexler told of how he and his fellow idealists in city government had sat at the feet of the urbanist Maurice Rotival, who would toss off dazzling sketches of the highways and housing projects with which they would remake the Elm City.

From Slate

The film’s narrator quotes the late Mike Davis, a noted historian and urbanist, when he says that Hollywood “takes a special pleasure in destroying Los Angeles — a guilty pleasure shared by most of its audience.”

From Los Angeles Times

In a sense, these activists are following a familiar urbanist playbook of the past two decades: Find the hidden rules, then rewrite them.

From Slate

The late urbanist first made waves in the 1990s for forecasting an L.A. that would be one ecological and manmade disaster after another.

From Los Angeles Times

Colombia has long punched above its weight as a source of ideas for cities, a kind of urbanist breadbasket to the globe.

From Slate