A recent article in The Daily Utah Chronicle highlighted students in the City and Metropolitan Planning Department who were involved in a course this past semester focused on housing affordability. Along with community organizations, the students were able to engage meaningfully in the community to highlight the voices of residents and work towards solutions to […]
Read MoreWe are excited to announce that the UT APA High Achievement Awards have arrived in the office for Drs. Ivis Garica and Alessandro Rigolon. Great job to all the students and faculty involved in the Thriving in Place Project!
Read MoreThis weekend, students in Nightscapes, one of the required courses for the Dark Sky Studies minor, visited Helper, Utah to learn more about the importance of preserving the night sky. Helper is the 2nd city in Utah and 25th city in the world to be designated as an International Dark Sky Community, recognized by the […]
Read MoreDivya Chandrasekhar and Sua Kim of University of Utah’s City & Metropolitan Planning Department worked with John Downen and Joshua Spolsdoff of UU’s Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute to survey local businesses about their recovery actions after the March 2020 disasters, including COVID-19 lockdowns and a 5.7 magnitude earthquake. The researchers noted that while increasing […]
Read MoreAs human populations become concentrated in larger, more intensely urbanized areas connected through globalization, the relationships of cities to their surrounding landscapes are open to social, ecological, and economic reinterpretation. In particular, the value of access to nature in the form of nearby undeveloped wildland to urban populations implies a relatively novel type of synergistic […]
Read MoreGraduate students from the City & Metropolitan Planning Department presented their community-based engagement projects for the fall 2022 semester in partnership with 14 organizations in Utah. Students from the seminar ‘Community Engagement in Planning’ worked to engage local communities and connect with neighbors in the valley, creating an opportunity to reflect, collectively build knowledge and […]
Read MoreMore walkability means less parkability. In what has become a trend in large metro areas, the Utah Legislature is preparing a bill that would prevent cities from requiring parking in new housing and commercial buildings near transit stations. In a recent article about this issue, MCMP student Cameron Carter is cited saying, “Excessive parking isn’t […]
Read MoreThe City and Metropolitan Planning Department earned the High Achievement Award from the American Planning Association Utah chapter for their work on the Thriving in Place SLC project. The initiative, a collaborative effort in Salt Lake City and Baird + Driskell Community Planning, developed a plan of action to address the factors that are forcing neighbors to leave […]
Read MoreIn a recent article published in the Salt Lake Tribune, MCMP student Briant Novinska-Lois suggests that housing prices would become more affordable in the “best” areas of Salt Lake City if there is more housing via higher densities, called for by the city’s proposed Affordable Housing Overlay. He also looks at examples throughout the city of discriminatory […]
Read MoreCMP students have recently been featured in local news outlets, including the Daily Utah Chronicle and KSL.com, for their community engagement work on the west side of Salt Lake City! This semester, CMP students gathered data about “tesoros,” or treasures, to learn more about the most important community spaces and places for west side residents. Congratulations, […]
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