Definition of Town planning

1. Noun. Determining and drawing up plans for the future physical arrangement and condition of a community.

Exact synonyms: City Planning, Urban Planning
Generic synonyms: Planning
Member holonyms: Zoning

Definition of Town planning

1. Noun. the physical, social and economic planning of an urban environment (such as a town) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Town Planning

town and gown
town ball
town bicycle
town bicycles
town car
town cars
town clerk
town crier
town criers
town gas
town hall
town halls
town house
town houses
town meeting
town planning (current term)
town square
town squares
town twinning
town walls
towne
towned
townee
townees
towner
townes
townfolk
townfolks
townful
townfuls

Literary usage of Town planning

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Planning Problems of Town, City, and Region: Papers and Discussions at the by American Civic Association (1922)
"Now a new element entered into town planning. ... This was a vital element too, but it was not even recognized as a town planning element at all. ..."

2. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1916)
"Progress in town planning and civic improvement in Canada. T: Adams. Am City 14: 20-1 Ja '16 Real estate and the city plan. ..."

3. Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin by Public Affairs Information Service (1920)
"41p il maps diags '19 t Pederson, Sverre, Example of town planning In Norway: notes on the ... From Garden Cities and town planning Magazine, March, 1920. ..."

4. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by Anna Lorraine Guthrie, Marion A. Knight, H.W. Wilson Company, Estella E. Painter (1920)
"Nat Munie R 8:226-9 My "19 town planning in relation to land taxation; cities should have agricultural zones; examples of Canadian cities. T: Adams. ..."

5. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North, William M. Schuyler (1918)
"As yet the most important outcome of the Exposition has been the formation in Paris of a school of public art and town planning (École d'Art Public). ..."

6. Modern City Planning and Maintenance by Frank Koester (1914)
"CHAPTER XXI THE PLANNING OF GROWING TOWNS Planning Towns at the Outset; Cost of town planning; Necessity of Expert Knowledge; Principal Factors in Town ..."

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