单词 | town planner |
释义 | town plannern. Originally British. A person who plans the construction, growth, and development of a town or other urban area; a person who works in town planning. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > [noun] > town-planning or development > person urbanist1877 town planner1907 1907 Times 8 Aug. 6/4 Councillor Nettlefold (Birmingham) said that they wished to lay before the Prime Minister the general idea of town planners. 1961 L. Mumford City in Hist. xiii. 408 Washington..might have been a miracle of the solo town planner's art: a final period-piece to close the epoch. 1976 Audubon Sept. 106/3 What town planners call ‘cluster zoning’—closely grouped dwellings surrounded by open land—is the natural pattern of the English village. 2005 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 16 July 24/1 Town planners are the new gods of our society. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1907 |
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