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Part One statement to Planning Commission
Why do people think downtown is going under?
Second part of statement at the Salt Lake Planning Commission… We have a downtown plan. It emphasizes and prioritizes Main Street and State Street as our important urban core. That plan is working. High rise buildings cluster along Main and State and provide density that support transit and open spaces. Outside othe core, in the…
The Destiny of Salt Lake City: the Region
Today I gave a talk to the Wasatch Front Regional Council about my research into the history of the plan of Salt Lake City. My particular contribution to this story is to look at how the physical plan has changed over time. Salt Lake has a very unique origin story — how the pioneers settled…
The Plat of Zion and the Wide Streets of Salt Lake City
In my last post, I disputed the common myth that the streets in Salt Lake are wide so that an oxen team can turn around. But why are they so wide? To answer that question we have to return to the time of the founding of the Mormon church. When Joseph Smith founded his church,…
Why are Salt Lake City’s streets so wide?
Even the most casual visitor to Salt Lake City will notice that the streets here are very wide. How wide? Wide enough to turn a team of oxen around? Or maybe not. It’s been a story for a long time – Salt Lake’s wide streets are the result of a demand by its founder, Brigham…
