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urbanist

urbanist

2 6.0
A person who plans and improves cities and neighborhoods
  • noun
  • /ˈɜːrbənɪst/
  • Specialized
translation icon : urbanista
  • Many urbanists advocate for green spaces to improve the quality of life in urban areas.
  • New Urbanist
  • Urbanist zoning codes

Amid this crisis, urbanists face complex challenges.

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Examples

  • As an urbanist, she is passionate about designing sustainable living spaces for communities.

  • The Walkable City gets praise from urbanist Christopher Leinberger.

    Blog text (15)
  • The Chicago urbanists had a clear idea of how differences in a city should hold people together.

    Academic text (1990)
  • Amid this crisis, urbanists face complex challenges.

  • A lot of my professional friends are committed urbanists as well as committed environmentalists.

    Blog text (31)
  • Why haven't "new urbanist" planning efforts resulted in a reduction in sprawl?

    Blog text (3)
  • McHarg's work was popularized to a broader audience by urbanist writer William H. Whyte in The Last Landscape.

    Academic text (2006)
  • Some transit advocates, urbanists, and planners are uncomfortable with libertarian approaches to their fields of interest.

    Blog text (25)
  • Their subversive little book, The Exploding Metropolis, marked the starting point for decades of effort by planners and urbanists to combat urban sprawl and revive older communities.

    Academic text (2004)
  • The urbanist presented a detailed plan to enhance public transportation in the city.

Synonyms

urbanologist
vsurbanist
  • Specialized
8.6

A person who studies cities and how they grow and change

includes designing, planning, and promoting city improvements beyond research

Antonyms

7.7

A person who prefers to live in the countryside and values country life

How Involved

urbanist
  • Specialized
2 6.0
urbanologist
  • Specialized
8.6
organizer
  • US
149 2.8

Surface Forms

urbanist singular
urbanists plural

Morphology

urbanist = urban (transparent) = urban + ist

Clear agentive formation: 'urban' + '-ist' gives someone professionally or ideologically concerned with cities (planner, scholar, advocate).

Etymology

The word urbanist combines the root urban from Latin urbs 'city' with the ending -ist meaning 'one who', as in artist. So an urbanist is 'one who' studies, plans, or works to improve cities.