| 释义 |
ˈurbanist2
[f. urban a. and n. + -ist.]
A specialist in or advocate of town-planning.
1930Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Sept. 708/4 To do so would be to entrust the fate of a city to the technical urbanist. 1964Economist 5 Sept. 917/1 The ‘urbanists’ fight for more railways to revive the city's heart. 1979Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts Nov. 776/1 The Urbanist's rôle is to design fragments of the city which reflect the culture and ideals of these groups while contrasting them with other orders—pragmatic or architectural.
Hence urbaˈnistic a., urbaˈnistically adv.
1959Listener 12 Feb. 289/1 Though he [sc. Le Corbusier] has derived so much from the study of the city, his own urbanistic achievements are scarcely to be considered to rank alongside his architectural ones. 1975Times Lit. Suppl. 13 June 660/2 Urbanistically, there is no Middle America. 1983Listener 21 Apr. 7/3 An international competition was held for an urbanistic plan for the Sassi. |