urban planner

noun

: one whose job is to develop comprehensive plans and designs for the use of space within cities, towns, developments, etc.

The intense competition for space among residential, industrial, recreational, agricultural, and transportation interests presents a continual series of problems to the urban planner.

—Thomas Eugene Avery et al.

urban planning noun

Disney threw himself obsessively into the park's design, which anticipated many of the best features of modern urban planning …

—Richard Schickel

Examples of urban planner in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

About a decade ago, architectural designer, urban planner and Future Vision Studios founder Aaron DeMayo began developing the Coastline, a regional resilience master plan proposal to protect southern Florida from storm surge and sea level rise. — Dorany Pineda, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2026

Financing, policy and community support are just some of the challenges architects and urban planners face with implementation. — ABC News, 22 Aug. 2026

The urban planner and former professor also knows what happens next after a powerful earthquake devastates whole communities. — Luis Giraldo, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026

Where map specialists fit in Cartographers, urban planners and geospatial analysts spend their working days in sustained spatial reasoning. — Hatim Sharif, The Conversation, 6 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1911, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for urban planner

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• branner
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• manner
• manor
• scanner
• spanner
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