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

From capped highways covered with greenspaces to the creation of autonomous shuttle buses and mobility hubs, architects, urban planners and even elementary school students presented different ideas for the corridor. —Desiree Mathurin april 15, Charlotte Observer, 15 Apr. 2026

Gateway is the type of project urban planners swoon over. —Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026

And everybody from climatologists and firefighters to farmers and urban planners use that data to help make decisions. —Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 12 Apr. 2026

Lúcio Costa, an urban planner, won with a design acclaimed almost unanimously by the judges. —Sophia La Banca, JSTOR Daily, 11 Mar. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1911, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for urban planner

• banner
• branner
• canner
• fanner
• kanner
• manner
• manor
• scanner
• spanner
• tanner