Definition of City planning

1. Noun. Determining and drawing up plans for the future physical arrangement and condition of a community.

Exact synonyms: Town Planning, Urban Planning
Generic synonyms: Planning
Member holonyms: Zoning

Medical Definition of City planning

1. Comprehensive planning for the physical development of the city. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of City Planning

city councils
city desk
city district
city editor
city father
city fathers
city girl
city girls
city hall
city halls
city limit
city limits
city line
city man
city manager
city planning (current term)
city room
city slicker
city slickers
city state
city states
city symphony
city university
citybound
citybus
citycentric
cityfied
cityfies
cityfy

Literary usage of City planning

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North, William M. Schuyler (1918)
"This movement Is headed by the Institute of city planning (Institute des ... This law provides for thoroughgoing compulsory city planning throughout the ..."

2. American City Government: A Survey of Newer Tendencies by Charles Austin Beard (1912)
"On the call of the New York City committee on congestion, the first National Conference on city planning and the Problems of Congestion was held at ..."

3. A Bibliography of Municipal Government in the United States by William Bennett Munro (1915)
"2d edition, with an additional section on city planning. ... city planning and beautifying. A selected list of books and of references to periodicals. ..."

4. The Modern City and Its Problems by Frederic Clemson Howe (1915)
"CHAPTER XV city planning IN AMERICA THE American city has been inadequately planned. With the exception of Washington, there has been no realization of the ..."

5. Proceedings of the second Pan American scientific congress: Washington, U. S by Glen Levin Swiggett (1917)
"Braisted, announced the general subject of the papers of the joint session, "Town and city planning," and introduced the writers whose papers follow in the ..."

6. Principles and Methods of Municipal Administration by William Bennett Munro (1916)
"CHAPTER II city planning CITY planning is the science of designing cities, ... There is no department of municipal administration which city planning, ..."

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