U-Walk Fest
Are you interested in what makes a place walkable, accessible and safe? Join the student and faculty research team on April 4 from 12-2 PM for the first annual U-Walk Fest, a workshop designed to inform participants about walkability as well as gather data about how walkable our campus is. RSVP here or email anna.maki@utah.edu with... Continue reading→
Career Expo on April 14th
DATE CHANGE: The City and Metropolitan Planning Department’s spring Career Expo has been moved to Friday, April 14! The event will take place at 11:30 AM in Room 129 at the Architecture Building. Bring your resumes and network with employers and professionals in the planning industry!
Dark Sky Studies Minor Visits Helper, Utah
This 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... Continue reading→
The Green Gentrification Cycle
Significant research has shown that gentrification often follows the implementation of greening initiatives (e.g. new parks) in cities worldwide, in what scholars have called ‘green gentrification’. Professors Alessandro Rigolon and Tim Collins recently published a new article looking at this phenomenon, proposing three complementary explanations for why gentrification precedes greening, including demand from gentrifiers, push... Continue reading→
Dr. Divya Chandrasekhar and Sua Kim Explore Transportation Recovery after Disasters
Divya 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... Continue reading→
Achieving Carbon Neutrality in Both Housing and Transportation in Ann Arbor and Nationwide
Did you know that housing and transportation together account for around 50% of greenhouse gas emissions? To achieve carbon neutrality by 2030, we need to dramatically reduce vehicle miles traveled and make our buildings more efficient. Different types of buildings have different carbon footprints, but it isn’t just the design features of the structures that... Continue reading→
Adjunct Instructor Patrick Putt on Development Projects across the County
Adjunct Instructor Patrick Putt, who also works as the Summit County Community Development Director, was featured in a podcast where he discussed ongoing development projects across the county. Listen here to learn more!
Revitalizing Japantown Street (Corinne Piazza, MCMP ’16)
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... Continue reading→
Professor Sarah Hinners and PhD Students Look at Urban-Wildland Juxtapositions
As 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... Continue reading→
Professor Rumore on Remote Workers Flocking to Utah’s Small Communities
During the pandemic, many people got a new lease on life—and new leases. Almost 3 million people in the United States permanently relocated during the first year of the pandemic. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the pandemic also caused over one-third of businesses to increase telework opportunities for employees. Utah is in the... Continue reading→