urbanisticadj.
/ˌəːbəˈnɪstɪk/, /ˌəːbnˈɪstɪk/, U.S. /ˌərbənˈɪstɪk/ Of or relating to urban development or town planning.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > [adjective] > relating to town-planner
urbanistic1934
1934 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 38 159 An old world with ancient and modern great towns and age-long urbanistic traditions.
1959 Listener 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.
1983 Listener 21 Apr. 7/3 An international competition was held for an urbanistic plan for the Sassi.
2003 Archit. Rev. Jan. 58/2 Despite its codified brief and a comparatively modest budget.., the Stazione Marittima is designed with gestural, contextual and urbanistic intent.
Derivatives
urbaˈnistically adv.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > [adverb] > town-planning
urbanistically1957
1957 M. Gendel tr. B. Zevi Archit. as Space 284 That continuous narrative style by which architecture is urbanistically resolved.
1993 Archit. Rev. Jan. 61/1 Urbanistically, it is a deep open-ended forecourt, leading away from the street to as yet nowhere in particular.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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