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Noun
Modern promoters of urban living, sometimes called new urbanists, have a reputation for blaming the automobile for many of the ills of the modern city.—
Alan Ohnsman,
Forbes.com,
20 Apr. 2026 But urbanists who have looked at Singapore report a city that works with an almost inhuman efficiency, in which the spontaneity of life has been engineered out of the urban environment.—
Yunus Emre Tozal,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Apr. 2026 The 100-acre greenbelt captured the imagination of urbanists who saw it as a way to reunite communities divided by the freeway.—
Deputy Managing Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Mar. 2026 To some urbanists, a sneckdown offers a vision of a better world.—
Naaman Zhou,
New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for urbanist
Word History
Etymology
Adjective
from urbanism, after such pairs as English optimism : optimistic