How to Use urban planner in a Sentence

urban planner

noun
  • Most of the time, urban planners do not have to reinvent the wheel.
    — Janette Sadik-Khan, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2020
  • Gateway is the type of project urban planners swoon over.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026
  • That's what happens when urban planners don't think ahead.
    — Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 28 Aug. 2025
  • That's what happens when urban planners don't think ahead.
    — Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 28 Aug. 2025
  • My father was an urban planner, my mother was a stay-at-home mom.
    — Gisele Grayson, NPR, 23 May 2024
  • Our urban planners think about how to design a more comfortable city.
    — Joan Meiners, The Arizona Republic, 31 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • That prospect can be attractive to employers and urban planners.
    — Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 11 June 2024
  • More advanced features are rolling out to Google Earth for power users like urban planners.
    — Sasha Lekach, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Some urban planners want to phase out free parking altogether.
    — New York Times, 9 June 2026
  • The idea has tantalized urban planners and utopian dreamers for centuries.
    — Conor Dougherty, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2023
  • And city officials, urban planners and critics say the model is failing modern cities.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 24 June 2023
  • The author is an urban planner who lives in South Los Angeles.
    — Roberto Luna, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2023
  • Germany’s urban planners usually bow to the diktat that nothing can be built higher than the church towers.
    — Zoë Dare Hall, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Given such rhetoric, as well as examples from past fires, urban planners are skeptical that the changes needed to make new homes safe will come to fruition.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 22 Jan. 2025
  • So, as long as prisons and jails continue to exist, architects and urban planners must face the question of what a prison should look like.
    — Abdallah Fayyad, Vox, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Its models could then be used by urban planners to help design their own sponge city projects that’s attuned to local conditions and resources.
    — Alex Knapp, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Behind the scenes, musicians turned urban planners like Fichman are seizing on that glimmer of hope.
    — Katie Thornton, Rolling Stone, 20 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Many entities – from urban planners to design firms to consultancies – are at work blueprinting potential new takes on the once-beloved mall.
    — Jeffrey Steele, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Conflating them is a mistake that urban planners, retailers and city officials keep making.
    — Yunus Emre Tozal, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2026
  • An architect and urban planner, Voltaire is a former minister for Haitians living abroad.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2024
  • And in other cities, like Berlin, music-friendly urban planners have made money available to venues to help offset the cost of soundproofing.
    — Katie Thornton, Rolling Stone, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Wondering while stuck in traffic about who made decisions about roads, according to his website, he was inspired to become an urban planner.
    — Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The scale of the city's long-term climate adaptation planning has gained admirers among urban planners throughout the world, says Rasmussen.
    — Rob Schmitz, NPR, 13 June 2025
  • Batcheller announced his run for mayor last summer, pitching his experience as an urban planner to improve transit and housing.
    — Angela George, Sioux Falls Argus Leader, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Lúcio Costa, an urban planner, won with a design acclaimed almost unanimously by the judges.
    — Sophia La Banca, JSTOR Daily, 11 Mar. 2026
  • But Du, an architect and urban planner, complicates the simple narrative of the city’s ascent.
    — Andrew J. Nathan, Foreign Affairs, 14 Apr. 2020
  • By highlighting these facets of the landscape, maps can show who actually controls the imaginations of urban planners and politicians.
    — Patty Heyda, The Conversation, 1 June 2026
  • With this imagery, a terrain map can be generated for use by urban planners, or a soldier can print a copy of an image and share it with foreign mission partners on the battlefield.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025

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