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urban planning

urban planning noun: the conscious design of towns and cities.

Noun

urban planning (usually uncountable, plural urban plannings)

(usually) The conscious design of towns and cities.

Synonyms:

city planning, town planning, urbanism
(usually) The science of such design.

urban planning meaning in Tamil, Malay, Indonesian and Vietnamese

urban planning in Tamil

நகாப்புறத் திட்டம், நகர்ப்புறத் திட்டம்

urban planning in Malay

conscious design of towns and cities: perancangan bandar
science: perancangan bandar

urban planning in Indonesian

conscious design of towns and cities: perencanaan kota, tata kota
science: planologi, perencanaan kota

urban planning in Vietnamese

conscious design of towns and cities: quy hoạch đô thị

Synonyms of urban planning

city planning
town planning
urbanism

Forms of urban planning

plural	urban plannings

Questions about urban planning

What does urban planning mean?: Urban planning means the conscious design of towns and cities.
What is urban planning in Tamil?: Urban planning in Tamil is நகாப்புறத் திட்டம், நகர்ப்புறத் திட்டம். See Urban planning meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is urban planning?: Urban planning is a noun.
What is the plural of urban planning?: The plural of urban planning is urban plannings.

Words near urban planning in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: urban planning (page history and authors); urban planning (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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