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urban planning

technical and political process concerned with the use of land and design of the urban environment
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Summary

urban planning is a type of policy[1]. It draws 3,593 Wikipedia views per month (type of policy category, ranking #4 of 38).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: public administration[3], academic discipline[4]
  • Subclass of: spatial planning[5]
  • Part of: urban and regional planning[6]
  • Commons category: Urban planning[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Urban planning[8]
  • Product or material produced: strategic plan[9]
  • Facet of: land-use planning[10], urbanism[11]
  • Partially coincident with: urban design[12]
  • Topic has template: Template:Urban Planning[13]
  • Has characteristic: land-use planning[14]
  • Practiced by: urban planner[15]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[16]

Why It Matters

urban planning has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] It is known by 118 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

Related Entities

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 8w ago · SLuecke · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Verbaalpina id → C19360
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Verbaalpina id: C19360, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1786955435161"
  2. 13w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → city-planning
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: city-planning, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289923806|city planning (#289923806)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's ta"
  3. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Product → —
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Has characteristic → land-use planning
    Image last checked license → —
    + 18 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|9 */ Yso id: 8270, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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