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| 1 |  | Field guide for the inquisitive urban ecologist | Longino, Erika | Urban ecology (Sociology); City planning - Environmental aspects | This thesis consists of an independent mixed-media publication, or zine, which explores five specific case studies that demonstrate urban ecology. These projects exemplify urban ecological thinking and can be used as a field guide to understanding the urban landscape in Salt Lake City, Utah. These ... |
| 2 |  | Urban planning public engagement: the importance of values research in pedagogy | Crompton, Patrick | City Planning | This paper provides a comparison of how public engagement for planners is described in academic literature and how public engagement is accomplished in real world planning projects This is accomplished through an analysis of academic writing on the subject and a selection of modern planning projects... |
| 3 |  | Drawing the map | Lingenfelter, Isobel | Bears Ears National Monument (Utah); Inter-Tribal Coalition; Land management and environmental policy - United States | The act of recognition was painful at many levels of my personhood. If someone has ignored or treated you as if you did not exist, you can understand the pain that is generated by having a lack of recognition. To realize at the eco-psychology conference that I had been r... |
| 4 |  | The Importance of Planning in Rural Communities | Stoddard, Henry | City and Metropolitan Planning; problem solving; Ultimately | City and Metropolitan Planning as a discipline is largely focused on the development and problem solving of dense urban living areas. This is largely due to the fact that urban areas contain the most people, therefore they require careful planning in order to function properly. It makes sense. But t... |
| 5 |  | Redesigning communities: The case for utopias | Thompson, Patrick C. | Utopias -- United States City planning -- United States | This thesis studies the importance of Utopian city planning in attempting to transform our communities and solve the social issues faced throughout the 19th and 20th Centuries. Idealist city plans originated as a genre of literature dating back to the 16th Century, playing a vital social role throug... |
| 6 |  | Preserving the past, planning the future: Lessons from the grand staircase-Escalante national monument land management plans | Parmenter, Elena | public lands management; indigenous knowledge in conservation; Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument | Few places capture the geological, cultural, and political complexity of the American West like the desert landscape of southern Utah. Modern conflicts over Utah's public lands highlight the struggle to balance resource development with conservation priorities. Grand Staircase-Escalante National Mon... |
| 7 |  | The Social and Historical Reproduction of Japantown/Nihonmachi in Salt Lake City, Utah | Safiullah, Samah | My honors thesis is a historical, theoretical, and methodological approach to understanding the social and physical formation of Japantown and Japantown Street in Salt Lake City. I am interested in the formation of a specific ethnic enclave and micro-neighborhood which once existed. My thesis will a... | |
| 8 |  | Ecological Literacy: Education and Ecological Consciousness | Pelaez, Guillermina Loyola | Current and future environmental issues reveal the urgency of raising an ecologically literate society that possesses the necessary skills to address the needs of a changing world. The future of all depends on lifelong learners whose actions and intellect are strongly tied to the environments that s... | |
| 9 |  | From pilgrims to the plat of Zion: how religious settlements shaped Western town building | DeLong, Evyn | laid; historical sites | This thesis paper analyzes and compares two types of religious settlements in the Western United States, primarily during the 1700-1800s. The Plat of Zion was the first rudimentary plan laid out for Salt Lake City created by Joseph Smith, the first prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day... |
| 10 |  | Diverse Neighborhoods, Food Access, and Urban Agriculture: a Case Study of Four Community Gardens in Salt Lake City | Johnson, Christianna | Food access; Community gardens; Urban agriculture; Planning | Community gardens have been shown to increase food security as well as develop social capital in an urban setting. Several socioeconomic factors (including age, education, annual household income, and more) have been demonstrated to substantially affect perceptions of benefits from participating in ... |
| 11 |  | Impact of "landscape Lab" green infrastructure on red butte creek hydrologic patterns | Fuller, Isabel | impacts | Urbanization introduces hard surfaces, such as roads, parking lots, and buildings, that do not allow precipitation to infiltrate the ground where it falls. These hard surfaces, known as impervious surfaces, alter the character of watersheds and can have negative impacts on urban waterways. In this p... |
| 12 |  | Water quality and population: correlation analyses in Salt Lake County, Utah | Peterson, Claire | Water quality is dependent on a number of variables. It is known that, on a broad scale, water quality is affected by seasonal variables, land use, and urbanization. My research explored population changes within Salt Lake County, Utah. Based on prior research, I hypothesized that this variable woul... | |
| 13 |  | From Ground to Air: Connecting Nonemergency Medical Transportation in Rural Utah | Seang, Emily | Sufficient transportation is essential to supporting medical care in rural communities. Due to spatial barriers, or the lack of health facilities or pharmacies, patients often find themselves paying a high cost for consistent medical care. For patients needing multiple medical appointments, transpor... | |
| 14 |  | Human pathways to the Great Salt Lake | Hadfield, Nicholas | City planning - Utah; Great Salt Lake (Utah) | How is the Great Salt Lake connected to our sense of place as residents of the Salt Lake Valley? This thesis seeks to explore the Great Salt Lake's spiritual, environmental, and economic importance to past, present, and future inhabitants of the Salt Lake Valley. To do so, the paper explores differ... |
| 15 |  | Center lines, turn lanes and bicycle infrastructure : bikeways in the United States and Salt Lake City's 1700 South corridor | Millar, Thomas | bicycle lanes; Utah; Salt Lake City; United States | Continuous and well-designed bicycle infrastructure plays an essential role in encouraging people to see and use the bicycle as a legitimate form of transportation and not only for recreation. In Salt Lake City, a common roadway striping design end bicycle lanes prematurely, requiring bicyclists to ... |
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