urbanist
noun
ur·ban·ist
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Definition of urbanist
: a specialist in city planning
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Other Words from urbanist
urbanistic
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adjective
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adjective
urbanistically
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adverb
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adverb
Examples of urbanist in a Sentence
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Proponents included urbanists, labor unions, homebuilders and the AARP. — USA TODAY, "Robot hostesses, veggie booze, ‘civil death’: News from around our 50 states," 4 July 2019 According to a report from regional urbanist think tank SPUR, 28 percent of new Bay Area office construction between 2010 and 2015 went up within half a mile of a transit line, and 75 percent of regional workers still drive to work. — Patrick Sisson, Curbed, "As top innovation hub expands, can straining local infrastructure keep pace?," 6 Nov. 2018 For urbanists, the greatest bottleneck is how to process this data. — Annette M. Kim, The Atlantic, "Satellite Images Can Harm the Poorest Citizens," 5 June 2018 The urbanists blame the NIMBYs for this debacle, and vice versa. — Danny Westneat, The Seattle Times, "Political trouble was ‘baked into the cake’ of Seattle’s sweeping upzoning plan," 5 Dec. 2018 Alexandra Lange writes the Critical Eye column for Curbed, covering design in many forms: new parks and Instagram playgrounds, teen urbanists and architectural icons, postmodernism and the post-retail era. — Alexandra Lange, Curbed, "Meet the Hunters, Vermont’s modernist-house pioneers," 9 Aug. 2018 The organization—and its founder, urbanist Jan Gehl—believe that a thriving public life is essential for health, equity, and democratic participation. — Diana Budds, Curbed, "It’s time to take back third places," 31 May 2018 In Playa Vista, a dense neighborhood of new-urbanist condominiums has popped up on land once owned by the eccentric aerospace innovator Howard Hughes. — Geoff Manaugh, The Atlantic, "Los Angeles, America’s Future Spaceport," 17 May 2018 Buy Photo Among a certain set of Philadelphia urbanists who devour websites like Hidden City, Naked City, and Property, the work of GroJLart has long been required reading. — Inga Saffron, Philly.com, "What's the connection between a Philly blogger and the demolition of the Washington Ave. chocolate factory? | Inga Saffron," 3 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'urbanist.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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