Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
town planning
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Britain remained wedded to its Unwin-esque traditions in housing design and layout and to the statutory town planning which we have described.
▪ Increasingly, the town planning movement came to be dominated by an institutionalized professional ideology.
▪ It is strong in technological subjects and has an important department of architecture and town planning.
▪ The basis for statutory town planning was changed in the Town and Country Planning Act, 1932.
▪ The discipline and profession of town planning became a beneficiary of this wider frame of social concern.
▪ The notion of town planning and its profession of technically qualified practitioners inevitably stood to be beneficiaries in this context.
▪ They excelled in and developed the arts of building, of engineering and of town planning.
▪ This novel and distinctive economic backcloth to the inter-war years had a number of important consequences for town planning.
Wiktionary
town planning
n. the physical, social and economic planning of an urban environment (such as a town)
WordNet
town planning
n. determining and drawing up plans for the future physical arrangement and condition of a community [syn: city planning, urban planning]