Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A specialist in the study and planning of cities.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A person who studies cities and their growth.
- n. An urban planner.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An adherent of Pope Urban VI., in opposition to whom a faction set up Clement VII. in 1378, thus beginning the great schism.
- n. A member of a branch of the Clarisses following a mitigated rule. See Clarisse.
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Examples
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A fundraising pitch for an "urbanist" group would be a major no no.
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That's why real estate prices for single family homes in so called "urbanist" communities like Bethesda and Chevy Chase, with their sidewalks and pedestrians and down-town mainstreets where people walk are so cheap.
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Santee, who calls himself an "urbanist," isn't sure how many more ballparks he'll create.
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This gift honors not only the rising tide of urbanist ideas, but also the spirit of implementation.
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Lincoln Park location for Capital Bikeshare nixed; commence urbanist outrage (GGW)
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His potential motivations: There's some speculation in the Wilson Building that Barry wouldn't mind expanding his political influence over the Southwest Waterfront development, a $2 billion development that's well underway to transform the area into a glitzy urbanist dream that people actually visit. ...
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The people who would benefit from them are not McGinn's constituents, nor are they particularly fans of the "new urbanist" cult who frequent these pages and these comment threads.
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Blah blah tunnel blah blah blah Council blah blah McGinn/O'Brien blah blah blah save-the-planet surface option blah blah blah conspiracy blah blah blah urbanist jargon with no understanding of what a city is blah blah blah grandma can bicycle to her service job in a worklive art studio blah blah blah media that is nothing but cola with no nutritional value.
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You think yourself an urbanist-type but gridding Seattle Center is insane.
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Dan thinks himself an urbanist-type, but gridding Seattle Center is insane.
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