city planning

noun

: the drawing up of an organized arrangement (as of streets, parks, and business and residential areas) of a city

city planner noun

Examples of city planning in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Amazon’s Prime Air operation would be on the southwest corner of the property and not visible from the road, city planning documents said. —Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 30 Apr. 2025

And while the redlining maps may no longer hang in city planning offices, their blueprint for exclusion persists. —Lenwood V. Long, Sr., Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025

School board member Zach Young, former state Rep. Gary Moore, and former city planning official Jennifer Carlat are among the appointments to the advisory committee. —Nate Rau, Axios, 18 Apr. 2025

Perhaps the book’s most familiar example, for Americans, is that of the large-scale city planning to which the urbanist and writer Jane Jacobs objected. —Nikil Saval, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1900, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for city planning

• scintiscanning
• panning
• planing
• scanning
• spanning
• tanning
• preplanning
• replanning