city planning

noun

the activity or profession of determining the future physical arrangement and condition of a community, involving an appraisal of the present condition, a forecast of future requirements, a plan for the fulfillment of these requirements, and proposals for constructional, legal, and financial programs to implement the plan.

city planning

First recorded in 1910–15

The publication will issue also some special bibliographies such as the one that was issued recently on city planning.

Nowadays we hear much about planning—town planning, city planning, nation planning.

M. de Queylus interested himself in city planning also and he mapped out the lines on which the city should extend.

There is a similar disposition today to procrastinate in all city planning and health movements.

City planning has long been an accepted principle for service in the more progressive larger centers.

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