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Andres Duany Applauds The Mormon Grid

Submitted on Mon, 05/06/2013 - 20:25

Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon Church, is not a name that planners and urbanists usually think of in the same category as Daniel Burnham or Pierre L'Enfant. But Smith made a significant and historic contribution to American urban planning with the plat of Zion, a grid system with perfect north-south and east-west streets divided into standard distances (read more). Based on Biblical principles, the plat of Zion imposed structure and order on rugged Western landscapes.

What NOT to Expect in Salt Lake City

Submitted on Mon, 04/29/2013 - 17:36

Newcomers to Salt Lake City can’t help but come with a few preconceptions. Tim Sullivan and Michael Yount bring us this list of the Top 5 things urbanists might expect to find – but won’t – in SLC:

  1. Homogeneity: Salt Lake Valley’s residents are indeed predominately white and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but not to the degree of the days when the Mormon temple was planned as the city’s center.

Salt Lake City Interrotta: An Ideas Competition

Submitted on Mon, 04/29/2013 - 15:52

An Urban Design Competition from The Great American Grid. Sponsored by Historical Concepts.

You have just been selected to participate in an ideas competition which is open exclusively to those who finish reading this sentence. Congratulations and thank you for your forthcoming entry.

None Dare Call It City Creek

Submitted on Mon, 04/15/2013 - 18:29

This article, written by Glen Warchol, was originally published fby Salt Lake Magazine, April 10, 2013. Read the original article at SaltLakeMagazine.com.

If you care about small, sustainable neighborhoods and hate sterile, large-scale developments, you can be part of the solution taking form in Salt Lake's Granary District.

Mobile Workshop/Tour to Directly Enhance SLC Pedestrian Experience

Submitted on Mon, 04/15/2013 - 17:17

Salt Lake City’s large 10-acre blocks are bisected by mid-block walkways, alleys and small vehicular streets that improve the city’s pedestrian experience and cyclist mobility. When we incorporate mid-block walkways into the grid, we increase our intersection density from 68 to 257 intersections per square mile.

In Utah, Urbanism As Collaboration

Submitted on Thu, 04/04/2013 - 20:52

This piece was written by Tim Sullivan, an urban planner based in Oakland, freelance writer and former Salt Lake Tribune reporter. He is also the author of No Communication with the Sea: Searching for an Urban Future in the Great Basin.

Mixed Mediums of the Digital Age

Submitted on Mon, 03/18/2013 - 21:39

CNU 21 Hosting Multiple Sessions on the Application of New and Emerging Technologies

Tactical (New) Urbanism Comes of Age @ CNU 21

Submitted on Sun, 03/10/2013 - 22:29

Short term actions that lead to long term change. - Mike Lydon, Street Plans Collaborative

Envision Utah and the Regional Track @ CNU 21: Living Community

Submitted on Wed, 02/20/2013 - 21:30

[Living] Together - Regional Track

Utah’s regional visioning illustrates a holistic and continuously evolving approach toward planning, that which The Congress for the New Urbanism’s annual Congress, CNU 21, embodies: A Living Community. This readiness to embrace dynamic change makes Salt Lake City, Utah the perfect host to this year’s Congress…and why we are dedicating an entire track— entitled [Living] Together – to the region.

“Envision Utah” Breakout Session