单词 | city planner |
释义 | > as lemmascity planner city planner n. originally U.S. a person who plans the construction, growth, and development of a city or other urban area; one who works in city planning. ΚΠ 1902 House & Garden Aug. 386/1 If the railroad erects an office building with nothing more suggestive of a station than a mammoth porte cochère..then the city planner may well feel discouragement. 1973 T. Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow iii. 341 Often she will dream some dainty pasteboard model, a city-planner's city,..so tiny her bootsoles could wipe out neighbourhoods at a step. 2005 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 13 Nov. vii. 1/3 City planners envision a skyline comprising pencil-thin ‘point’ towers that leave space around them for light and air. < as lemmas |
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