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APA UT 2021 High Achievement Award for Public Engagement goes to Design Workshop, SLC Publics Lands Division, and CMP for Reimagine Nature Project

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Salt Lake City initiated the planning process for Reimagine Nature, a Public Lands master plan, just as the pandemic changed how we engaged with the public. To adapt, Public Lands utilized new advertisement methods and partnered with the University of Utah to employ a variety of digital and in-person techniques to reach underrepresented communities. Response […]

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Students learn about rural planning at the Utah APA Spring Conference

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Students from the University of Utah had the opportunity to join planners from across the region in Kanab this past March for APA Utah’s 2022 Spring Conference. With three days of presentations addressing both urban and rural planning needs, the Spring Conference highlighted content for professional planners, citizen planners and elected officials. Topics included everything […]

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Student Organization Point B Organizes Utah Legislative Transportation Panel

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The White House passed a $2 trillion infrastructure plan that would set aside $650 billion for roads, bridges, railways and ports as the administration signals its interest in focusing on updating and expanding transportation systems. This new federal goal comes as Utah is already awash in federal, one-time COVID-19 relief funds and as the state […]

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Dark sky’s future leaders

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Every year the glow from our porches, buildings and streetlights gets brighter while our view of the moon, stars and Milky Way get dimmer. As light pollution reduces the darkness of the night sky, it disrupts animal movements, human biological clocks and other essential processes. It makes our lives and the planet less healthy. Dark […]

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Prof. Reid Ewing publishes with current and former Ph.D. students in JAPA

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Guidelines for a Polycentric Region to Reduce Vehicle Use and Increase Walking and Transit Use ABSTRACT Problem, research strategy, and findings: The monocentric development pattern in the Alonso–Mills–Muth model underpinned theoretical discussions of urban form in the 1960s and 1970s and truly dominated theory up to the point when Joel Garreau published Edge City: Life on […]

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Community Engagement Students Produce Report for Road Home

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Students in the Community Engagement in Planning course, taught by Prof. Ivis Garcia, presented to Road Home staff about the Rapid Rehousing program. ABSTRACT The Road Home (TRH) is an organization providing services to homeless individuals and families in the Salt Lake City area. TRH is perhaps best known for their emergency shelters, but the […]

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Ph.D. student Sadegh Sabouri publishes two articles about ridesharing and the built environment

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Ride-sourcing services are getting more popular each year, and their markets are growing. Much has been speculated, but not much has been tested regarding the impacts of ride-sourcing services on the transportation system. In this study, we examine the relationship between ride-sourcing services and vehicle ownership of households, by using the most up-to-date (2017) national […]

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Ph.D. student JaYoung Kim and Profs. Keith Bartholomew and Reid Ewing publish on bus stop amenities, bus ridership, and ADA paratransit demand

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Abstract Improving bus stops by providing shelters, seating, signage, and sidewalks is relatively inexpensive and popular among riders and local officials. Making such improvements, however, is not often a priority for U.S. transit providers because of competing demands for capital funds and a perception that amenities are not tied to measurable increases in system effectiveness […]

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