urban planning

1. 1.

   the branch of architecture dealing with the design and organization of urban space and activities

   Broaderarchitecture
2. 2.

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

   Synonymscity planningtown planning

   Broaderplanning

Questions about urban planning

What does urban planning mean?

urban planning means "the branch of architecture dealing with the design and organization of urban space and activities". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for urban planning?

Close synonyms include city planning, town 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 urban planning a common word?

urban 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.