town planning

1. 1.

   determining and drawing up plans for the future physical arrangement and condition of a community

   Synonymscity planningurban planning

   Broaderplanning

Questions about town planning

What does town planning mean?

town planning means "determining and drawing up plans for the future physical arrangement and condition of a community".

What is another word for town planning?

Close synonyms include city planning, urban planning. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is town planning a common word?

town planning is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.