urbanist

noun

ur·​ban·​ist ˈər-bə-nist How to pronounce urbanist (audio)
: a specialist in city planning
urbanistic adjective
urbanistically adverb

Examples of urbanist in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
In Megalopolis, Francis Ford Coppola’s polarizing box office flop, a futuristic development is the wild utopic imagining of Adam Driver’s protagonist Cesar Catilina, a controversial urbanist who’s invented a newfangled building material called Megalon. Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Oct. 2024 Well, the new urbanists were really pioneers starting in the 1970s of the attempt to rediscover really timeless principles of urbanism, smaller streets, building more compactly, designing around the pedestrian rather than the automobile. Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2024 Lawmakers have taken action in recent years Much of this research predates when state and local policymakers increasingly prioritized making streets safer across the U.S., to the support of a growing contingent of urbanists around the country. Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2024 The opposition includes environmental groups, urbanists and social justice organizations. Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for urbanist 

Word History

First Known Use

1930, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of urbanist was in 1930

Dictionary Entries Near urbanist

Cite this Entry

“Urbanist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/urbanist. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!