town planning 
noun [mass noun]
The planning and control of the construction, growth, and development of a town or other urban area: principles of town planning...
- These matters were raised in the early studies of town planning and urban development by Pigou and articulated convincingly by Liepmann as given in Table 1.
- Topics up for discussion include current values, property funding, construction trends, strategic town planning and development.
- But university administrators said that he had been a dedicated student of town planning and urban development who had specialised in urban renewal.
Derivatives
town planner
- He trained as a town planner and signed off extensions and dormer window conversions before bureaucratic frustration forced him to seek new pastures.
- I'm an architect and a town planner and I spent a lot of my time looking at Europe for inspiration in that field, but when it comes to local democracy I think the US is quite a good model.
- He's an architect and town planner and lives in Sydney.