city planning
the activity or profession of determining the future physical arrangement and condition of a community, involving an appraisal of the present condition, a forecast of future requirements, a plan for the fulfillment of these requirements, and proposals for constructional, legal, and financial programs to implement the plan.
Origin of city planning
1- Also called town planning, urbanism, urban planning.
Other words from city planning
- city planner, noun
Words Nearby city planning
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How to use city planning in a sentence
The cameras are still on, but the program is temporarily on pause, held up nationally as an example of how not to incorporate technology into city planning.
City Tried to Withhold Memo That Was Already Public | Jesse Marx | June 8, 2021 | Voice of San DiegoIf the results are widely seen as flawed, it could cloud a decade of political reshuffling, federal spending, city planning, academic research, and private and public enterprise that rely on census data.
Will Americans be able to trust the results of the 2020 Census? | Tara Bahrampour | April 22, 2021 | Washington PostNuro’s vehicles don’t carry passengers, so the design features focus more on the safety of people outside of the vehicle, the aggregate data of which could be useful in human-centered city planning.
Woven Capital kicks off portfolio with investment in autonomous delivery company Nuro | Rebecca Bellan | March 26, 2021 | TechCrunchNico Calavita is professor emeritus in the graduate program in city planning at SDSU.
There’s a Way for the City to Balance Density With Quality of Life | Nico Calavita and Brian J. Curry | December 15, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoOne of the more immediate uses for AI in city planning is to understand the impact of urban design at a global scale.
AI planners in Minecraft could help machines design better cities | Will Heaven | September 22, 2020 | MIT Technology Review
The publication will issue also some special bibliographies such as the one that was issued recently on city planning.
Nowadays we hear much about planning—town planning, city planning, nation planning.
The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book | VariousM. de Queylus interested himself in city planning also and he mapped out the lines on which the city should extend.
Montreal 1535-1914 under the French Rgime | William Henry AthertonThere is a similar disposition today to procrastinate in all city planning and health movements.
Montreal 1535-1914 under the French Rgime | William Henry Athertoncity planning has long been an accepted principle for service in the more progressive larger centers.
Church Cooperation in Community Life | Paul L. Vogt
British Dictionary definitions for city planning
the US term for town planning
Derived forms of city planning
- city planner, noun
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