urban planning

designing the physical layout of cities, planning the infrastructure of an urban area

Urban, city, or town planning is the discipline of land use planning which explores several aspects of the built and social environments of municipalities and communities. Other professions deal in more detail with a smaller scale of development, namely architecture, landscape architecture and urban design. Regional planning deals with a still larger environment, at a less detailed level.
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Noun
1. the branch of architecture dealing with the design and organization of urban space and activities
(hypernym) architecture
2. determining and drawing up plans for the future physical arrangement and condition of a community
(synonym) city planning, town planning
(hypernym) planning
(member-meronym) zoning