Examples of urbanist in a Sentence
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The opposition includes environmental groups, urbanists and social justice organizations.
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Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2024
But loosening rules does not mean that new tenants will come, some urbanists argue.
—Teo Armus, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2023
For years, urbanists and civic leaders have dreamed of getting Madison Square Garden to move elsewhere in Manhattan, freeing up the station below for a true overhaul.
—Dana Rubinstein, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
Followings years of disappointment, some of those same urbanists have given up on that dream.
—Dana Rubinstein, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
Still, if the circumstances are right, some urbanists say, these more-unorthodox uses can help get rid of empty office space — perhaps just as well as turning those buildings into apartments.
—Teo Armus, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2023
In response, environmentalists and urbanists last year launched a public campaign to instead remove both those older and newer freeway stretches.
—Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 12 July 2023
The idea has roots going back decades, but Carlos Moreno, an urbanist based in Paris, started honing the theory's current iteration in 2010.
—The Week Staff, The Week, 10 Apr. 2023
By any measure, the area around an industrial patch of Ninth Street in Brooklyn, straddling Park Slope and Gowanus, ought to emerge as an urbanist’s utopia — a space where painters, poets, craftsmen, professionals with artsy jobs and working-class people live and connect and thrive.
—Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2022
Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2024
But loosening rules does not mean that new tenants will come, some urbanists argue.
—Teo Armus, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2023
For years, urbanists and civic leaders have dreamed of getting Madison Square Garden to move elsewhere in Manhattan, freeing up the station below for a true overhaul.
—Dana Rubinstein, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
Followings years of disappointment, some of those same urbanists have given up on that dream.
—Dana Rubinstein, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
Still, if the circumstances are right, some urbanists say, these more-unorthodox uses can help get rid of empty office space — perhaps just as well as turning those buildings into apartments.
—Teo Armus, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2023
In response, environmentalists and urbanists last year launched a public campaign to instead remove both those older and newer freeway stretches.
—Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 12 July 2023
The idea has roots going back decades, but Carlos Moreno, an urbanist based in Paris, started honing the theory's current iteration in 2010.
—The Week Staff, The Week, 10 Apr. 2023
By any measure, the area around an industrial patch of Ninth Street in Brooklyn, straddling Park Slope and Gowanus, ought to emerge as an urbanist’s utopia — a space where painters, poets, craftsmen, professionals with artsy jobs and working-class people live and connect and thrive.
—Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2022
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Word History
First Known Use
1930, in the meaning defined above
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“Urbanist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/urbanist. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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