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| 1 |  | 2025 | Roberts, Talon | Assessing the health and mortality of urban trees using google Street view | Urban forests play a critical role in contributing to urban resilience through the provision of ecosystem services such as environmental hazard mitigation, energy cost savings, and improvements in mental health and well-being (slc.gov, 2022). With cities like Salt Lake City entering a new era of dev... | Alexandra Ponette-Gonzalez |
| 2 |  | 2025 | Sanders, Abby | Comparative analysis of environmental equity tools in Salt Lake City | This tool measures how well the benefits of urban tree canopy concentration are reaching the people who need them most. | Alessandro Rigolon |
| 3 |  | 2025 | Visnick, Tanner | Active transportation plan | This Active Transportation Plan outlines high-level recommendations and designs for Ephraim's walking and biking network. | Keith Bartholomew |
| 4 |  | 2025 | Jimenez, Mili Pioquinto | Exploring typologies: design & recommendations in Park City, Utah | Park City is a municipality that is home to a variety of year-round recreational amenities. | Andy Hong |
| 5 |  | 2025 | Palmer, Will | Reconnecting communities: making the people' voices heard | The interstate followed along the railroad, which also divides the city. The railroad was initially built by Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad in the 1880s and the terminal built in 1910 in Salt Lake is still standing today. | Reid Ewing |
| 6 |  | 2025 | Osman, Mustapha | How can we move people? optimizing transportation demand management in Park City: reducing congestion and enhancing transit options | Park City, Utah, occupies a distinctive place among American resort towns. Though its permanent population is relatively small, estimated at 8,365 residents according to the United States Census Bureau's 2023 American Community Survey 5-year estimate, Park City supports an annual visitor volume of o... | Reid Ewing |
| 7 |  | 2025 | Noshin, Fairuz and Goodman, Robert | Evaluating accessory dwelling units zoning in Salt Lake County | | Keith Bartholomew |
| 8 |  | 2025 | Lee, Yewon | Urban economic revitalization through sustainable public transportation in Salt Lake City | Salt Lake City faces critical urban issues: rising congestion, declining air, and growing spatial injustice. This report examines how green public transport can be used as an engine of economic renewal, environmental health, and social fairness. Based on a mixed-methods research methodology involvin... | Andy Hong |
| 9 |  | 2025 | Long, Jessica | Quilted together historic union pacific rail trail arts & culture phasing & lmpementation strategy | acknowledgment As we plan for the future of the Historic Union Pacific Rail Trail and its surrounding communities, it is important to begin with recognition of the lands on which this work takes place. | Alessandro Rigolon |
| 10 |  | 2025 | Ko, Tiana | Enhancing barrier-free and safe public transportation for international students of the University of Utah | This project explores the transportation experiences of international students in Salt Lake City, focusing on accessibility, safety, and systemic inequities in public transit. Although public transportation is essential for college students, particularly those with limited financial resources and no... | Andy Hong |
| 11 |  | 2025 | Kraczek, Landon | Mead up underpass project transform negative council | The project team worked closely with UDOT to creatively thread through the structural and legislative restrictions required. As momentum built, new partnerships emerged: One Elevate designed a variety of options for branding underpass pillars, GSBS is refining Landscape architectural designs, the Ut... | Alessandro Rigolon |
| 12 |  | 2025 | Keller, Hailey | Two voices: a comparative analysis of unsheltered and stakeholder perspectives of East-West transportation disconnections in Salt Lake City | Communities around the nation are witnessing hopeful change and a trajectory toward new-age, human-based infrastructure. Transportation disconnections are barriers to an individual's mobility in a city where individuals and even entire communities are cut off from opportunity (Seeley, 2023). Heavily... | Keith Bartholomew |
| 13 |  | 2025 | Heppler, Beyden | Trax & Green loop integration Rio Grande plan | The Rio Grande Plan envisions a revitalized civic and transportation hub centered on the historic Rio Grande Depot, with a cut- and-cover rail trench along 500 West serving as its backbone. | Molly Robinson |
| 14 |  | 2025 | Hunter, Ryan | Corporate landlords and evictions in Salt Lake City | An eviction is a court process a landlord uses to remove a tenant from rented housing. A tenant can be evicted for a range of reasons, including non-payment of rent or fees, violating the terms of a lease, or criminal activity. However, evictions have been associated with a wide range of negative co... | Aujean Lee |
| 15 |  | 2025 | Ehlers, Jaron | Child care and Park City's land management code | Child care is an essential industry in the United States. Until they are old enough to be independent, children must be taken care of, but in the decades since the Second World War, both parents have increasingly participated in the workforce full time. There is also the rise in single-parent famili... | Aujean Lee |
| 16 |  | 2025 | Glende, Emma | Sugar House Park safety & access | | Alessandro Rigolon |
| 17 | | 2025 | Goodman, Robert & Noshin, Fairuz | Evaluating accessory dwelling units zoning in Salt Lake County | Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) are an effective housing type that can increase housing stock. After reviewing case studies from Austin, Los Angeles, and Portland, we identified five critical zoning code factors that influence the development of ADUs. The five primary aspects are the following: allo... | Keith Bartholomew |
| 18 |  | 2025 | Bhandari, Suraksha | Supporting the development of Utah catastrophic housing plan | Wasatch fault poses a high risk for a major earthquake in Utah. Unreinforced masonry structures built before the 1970s are more vulnerable to this hazard region (Utah Division of Emergency Management, 2024). On average, every 300 years, an earthquake occurs along one of the five central segments of ... | Divya Chandrasekhar |
| 19 |  | 2025 | Bauer, Chloe | Bus stop improvement: attribute data update and analysis in partnership with Utah transit authority customer experience planning team | Utah Transit Authority offers bus service throughout Salt Lake, Utah, Davis and Tooele Counties. With 76 bus routes in the system and 5,109 bus stops in the system, the organization has been working towards creating a system that is accessible, efficient, and pleasurable. The Customer Experience Pla... | Andy Hong |
| 20 |  | 2025 | Azadi, Dorsa | SR 32 corridor and City centers plan | Along the State Route 32 (SR 32) corridor in eastern Summit County, Utah, population growth and ongoing roadway improvements require coordination between UDOT, Summit County, and local cities to ensure long term traffic operations, safety for all users, context sensitive design, and land use coordin... | Reid Ewing |
| 21 |  | 2025 | Allen, Tayler | Engagement & activation toolkit reviving main streets for people | The Engagement & Activation Toolkit provides guidance for community-led Main Street revitalization through community engagement and street activation, highlighting the need to refocus on peoplecentered, authentic public spaces. By providing practical tools, case studies, and step-by-step guides, thi... | Alexandra Ponette-González |
| 22 |  | 2025 | Apodaca, Nicholas | Riparian planning in practice: evaluation and implementation strategies for projects on parley's creek at sugar house park for the Sugarhouse Park authority | This document streamlines the implementation process for improvement projects and defines specific projects in the Riparian Corridor Overlay zone on Parley's Creek and Sugar House Pond at Sugar House Park in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is intended to be used by park management, municipal partners, and ... | Molly Robinson |
| 23 |  | 2025 | Visnick, Tanner | Ephraim active transportation plan | This active transportation plan provides highlevel recommendations to improve the safety and comfort of local walking and biking facilities. It serves as a strategic guide for Ephraim officials to enhance transportation infrastructure facilities in and around the City. | Keith Bartholomew |
| 24 |  | 2025 | Sanders, Abby | Comparative analysis of environmental equity tools in Salt Lake City | | Alessandro Rigolon |
| 25 |  | 2025 | Pioquinto Jimenez, Mili | Exploring typologies: design and recommendations in Park City, Utah | | Andy Hong |
