Wide Streets of Salt Lake
Monday, December 10, 2012
Wide Streets with Broad Brush
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Since the first time I came to downtown Salt Lake City at the age of six, I have always been fascinated with its wide streets and grid syste...
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Sunday, December 9, 2012
History of Salt Lake's Grid System
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The ideas for the layout of Salt Lake City originated with Joseph Smith, the founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, als...
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Saturday, December 8, 2012
Comparison of City-Block Sizes
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Jackson (1992) cites Joseph Smith's familiarity with the rectangular blocks of Philadelphia, as well as his New England-village upbring...
Friday, December 7, 2012
Salt Lake's Grid System: A How-To
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Visitors to Salt Lake often cry foul when they try to navigate the city’s grid system for street addresses. But it’s actually quite easy onc...
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Thursday, December 6, 2012
The Clash of Rhetoric in Salt Lake
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For nearly three millennia, rhetoric has been defined in a number of ways by various individuals. Corax, 476 BCE: “[Rhetoric is] the dem...
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
"Walking in the City" - Michel De Certeau
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Trying to characterize the dynamic between the designers and founders of Salt Lake and those who use its wide streets as part of their eve...
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
The Power of the Network
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Whether they named it specifically or merely described the concept, a number of scholars we studied in my Digital Rhetoric class referred t...
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