How to Use urban planner in a Sentence

urban planner

noun
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  • Most of the time, urban planners do not have to reinvent the wheel.
    — Janette Sadik-Khan, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2020
  • The project was an urban planner’s dream – a blank slate for reinventing a city of the future.
    — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Jan. 2024
  • My father was an urban planner, my mother was a stay-at-home mom.
    — Gisele Grayson, NPR, 23 May 2024
  • The author is an urban planner who lives in South Los Angeles.
    — Roberto Luna, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2023
  • That prospect can be attractive to employers and urban planners.
    — Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 11 June 2024
  • And city officials, urban planners and critics say the model is failing modern cities.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 24 June 2023
  • Indeed, the residents of ancient Cerén seemed to know more about earthquake-resistant buildings than do the urban planners of San Salvador.
    — Mary Roach, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Made up of writers, scholars, urban planners and educators, the posse is on a mission to create cultural pride in the San Gabriel Valley.
    — Kamren Curiel, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The idea has tantalized urban planners and utopian dreamers for centuries.
    — Conor Dougherty, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2023
  • But Du, an architect and urban planner, complicates the simple narrative of the city’s ascent.
    — Andrew J. Nathan, Foreign Affairs, 14 Apr. 2020
  • An architect and urban planner, Voltaire is a former minister for Haitians living abroad.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2024
  • For those unfamiliar with Moses, the famed New York urban planner arguably had a greater impact on the future of the largest city in America than any other person in history.
    — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 31 May 2024
  • In addition, some urban planners argue that the 15-minute city could increase the segregation of neighborhoods by income and race.
    — The Week Staff, The Week, 10 Apr. 2023
  • America’s coastal cities are sinking, putting more people at risk for flooding than urban planners might have expected with sea level rise alone.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 6 Mar. 2024
  • And understanding which parts of a city are sinking the most – and why – can help urban planners make better decisions about where to build heavy buildings, and how to protect buildings from future flooding.
    — Rebecca Hersher, NPR, 18 Apr. 2024
  • To allow time to adapt to this huge change, Mr. Flower, an urban planner focused on affordable housing in the Central California region, vowed to spend the year getting to know himself.
    — Louise Rafkin, New York Times, 12 May 2023
  • Four years ago, urban planner Nithya Raman burst onto the political scene, becoming the first challenger to unseat an incumbent on the City Council in 17 years.
    — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2024
  • For decades, environmentalists and urban planners have been on a mission to get Americans out of their cars and on to buses, light rail, commuter trains, bicycles, their feet, and, these days, even electric scooters.
    — Richard Morrison, National Review, 15 Dec. 2023
  • The roots of the problem are in London’s geography and the compromises made by previous generations of politicians and urban planners.
    — Peter Guest, WIRED, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Environmentalists and urban planners worked on a plan to link the site — in a working-class area southeast of Atlanta that is home to landfills and newer prisons — to neighboring forests to create a 1,200-acre network of public green space.
    — Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Regardless, some urban planners are already looking into ensuring how such a future could be as safe and efficient.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 13 Mar. 2024
  • In city after city, a new generation of urban planners is finding new ways to reduce traffic deaths by retrofitting roads, sometimes dramatically.
    — Janette Sadik-Khan, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2020
  • My destination was the working-class city of Ypsilanti, and a meeting with Beth Gibbons, an urban planner and specialist in climate adaptation.
    — Abrahm Lustgarten, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2024
  • Here are some ideas popular with leading urban planners, designers, and policy experts.
    — Mike Gousha and John Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Healthcare professionals, urban planners and decision-makers must work together to ensure the worlds’ cities are healthier and more climate-resilient places to live, according to a new report.
    — Jamie Hailstone, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Generally speaking, urban planners have designed city drainage systems to whisk away rainwater as quickly as possible to avoid flooding.
    — WIRED, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Developers have also huddled in preliminary talks with city, landscape and urban planners to draft dramatic enhancements to the neighborhood, streetscape and public arts, all in an effort to improve the street-level appeal of the bayfront enclave.
    — Jeffrey Steele, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The research team — which included engineers, economists and urban planners — took a look at the global picture and began gathering information.
    — Kartikay Mehrotra, ProPublica, 22 June 2023
  • Now these activists, many of whom only met because of the earthquake, are organizing conferences and meetings and networking with historians, urban planners, and archaeologists as the future of the city takes center stage.
    — Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Aug. 2023
  • The restoration is a yearslong process, one that involves a fleet of laborers and specialists: stonemasons, carpenters, structural engineers, architects, urban planners.
    — John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024

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