urban planning
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- noun
- /ˈɜrbən ˈplænɪŋ/
- Specialized
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planificación urbana
- She enrolled in a graduate program specializing in urban planning to learn how to design better neighborhoods.
- urban planning policies
- urban planning strategy
- land use in urban planning
It depresses me to the core of my being that the urban planning in this country needs a complete rework.
- It depresses me to the core of my being that the urban planning in this country needs a complete rework.
- Because we are home to the first school of public health in the history of this nation and this country's oldest urban planning program.
- I came to Jane Jacobs with this sense of a desirable what of urban planning, a static target.
Examples
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Similarly, we can trace the evolution of urban planning and policy on Rio's southern beachfronts.
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The analysis shows the importance of input from persons or groups that are often omitted from institutional urban-planning activities.
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We sure could use some innovative urban planning here in the U.S.!
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As we'll see, Roman urban planning was both rigid and flexible.
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We're going out there and we're performing acts of architecture and urban planning for what we believe is for the greater good.
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Increasingly throughout the world, urban planning is required to have as its objective the sustainability of local communities.
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The Prague we know today is said to be largely a product of Charles IV's effort at urban planning.
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Solutions recommended to combat physical inactivity included environmental changes related to urban planning, active transportation, parks, and recreational spaces.
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CDS was the first participatory urban planning exercise ever undertaken in Mongolia.
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Establish community investments by incorporating a health, cumulative-risk, and active-living framework into urban planning, which is essential for reducing health disparities for vulnerable populations.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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The study and practice of planning and designing cities
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Designing and managing how buildings, roads, and public spaces are placed in a city
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Deciding where roads, houses, and shops go in towns and cities
How Planned
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'designing and organizing city development' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'urban' (relating to cities) with 'planning' (the act of arranging or designing). This adjectival+noun composition is literal and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The phrase urban planning comes from the simple idea of drawing a map for a city: urban means 'city' and planning means 'making a plan'. People would picture streets, parks and buildings on paper to see how the city could work better, so today urban planning means 'designing and organizing' towns and cities.