town planning

Origin of town planning

First recorded in 1900–05

town planner, noun

However imperfectly the inner meaning of town-planning was understood, it was plainly common in the south of Roman Britain.

Ancient Town-Planning |F. Haverfield
The children will think of it till bed-time and fall asleep in the happy throes of their first town-planning.

Wings and the Child |E. [Edith] Nesbit
It is the one piece of written evidence (as distinct from structural remains) which has survived from Roman town-planning.

Ancient Town-Planning |F. Haverfield
The town-planning of Pompeii is in the main trapezoidal, not rectangular.

Ancient Town-Planning |F. Haverfield

Whether the surviving traces of town-planning date from this latter event or from some earlier age is not easy to say.

Ancient Town-Planning |F. Haverfield

town planning

the comprehensive planning of the physical and social development of a town, including the construction of facilities US term: city planning

town planner, noun