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Revitalizing Japantown Street (Corinne Piazza, MCMP ’16)

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There’s a street in downtown Salt Lake City serving as an urban archive with generations of stories written in brick and concrete. Near the Salt Palace Convention Center and the Vivint Arena, it stretches from Second to Third West on 100 South, bookended by the Japanese Church of Christ and the Salt Lake Buddhist Temple—the […]

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Meet Christopher Putt, B.S. Urban Ecology ’20

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Christopher Putt Transportation Planner – Summit County B.S. Urban Ecology ’20 Current student M. Arch   How did your experience at CA+P prepare you for your career?  My experience at CA+P has helped me in my current career and graduate studies immensely. Obviously, learning certain software and programs has been beneficial but beyond that my […]

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Fariba Siddiq (MCMP ‘19) wins Lee Schipper Scholarship Award for her research on women and ride-hailing

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Fariba Siddiq is leveraging her cross-cultural knowledge to study gender differences in ride-hailing. Siddiq, who was born and raised in Bangladesh, is researching ride-hailing experiences across genders in two cities: Los Angeles and Dhaka, Bangladesh. In her study, she’ll explore how ride-hailing impacts mobility and access to opportunities for women in both countries — before […]

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Christian Kirkham (MCMP ’16)

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How did you discover urban planning and/or urban ecology?  I took a course during my undergrad in urban planning because it seemed interesting to me and combined several of my passions/interests. I enjoyed it enough to take more classes on the subject. I eventually had the opportunity to work on a project that involved designing […]

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Brandon Siracuse (MCMP ’21)

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Brandon Siracuse recently earned his master’s degree in City and Metropolitan Planning from the University of Utah. While at the U of U he worked as a research assistant, earned a NITC scholarship, and served as an officer in the university’s transportation student group, Point B. As of June 2021, he now works as a planner for the […]

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Maddy McDonough (MCMP ’21) Summit County Planner talks about the Rail Trail

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Madlyn McDonough, a CMP alumni from the University of Utah and current Summit County planner, is working with other stakeholders to foster a stronger connection between the Snyderville Basin and eastern Summit County. This project, known as “The Corridor,” is a proposed arts, culture, recreation and tourism development that would run alongside the nearly 30-mile-long […]

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Humans of the U: Demetrius Kourtides (B.S. Urban Ecology, 2021)

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“I was a research scientist at NASA for 33 years. My responsibility was mainly to improve the heat shield that protects the space shuttle when it re-enters the atmosphere. When I retired, my wife and I moved back to Salt Lake City. My wife has family here, and I had graduated from BYU. To be […]

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Corinne Piazza (MCMP 2016)

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Favorite College Memory: My favorite CA+P college memory was my experience in the study abroad program for Cuba: Complexity, Community, and Change course. I am an avid traveler and to me learning abroad is a crucial part of self-education and understanding the world, and while in Cuba, we had the opportunity to meet with Cubans from all […]

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