Affordable Housing Through Community Land Trusts (CLTs): Examining Factors Associated with the Number of Units in CLTs

Dr. C. Aujean Lee (Assistant Professor, City & Metropolitan Planning) has recently published an article in Housing Policy Debate about what factors are associated with more community land trust (CLT) units, which are an affordable housing model for low-income households. The study highlights the importance of publicly-owned or operated CLTs. As part of the study […]

City & Metropolitan Planning | Green Gentrification @theU feature

MCMP students address community concerns about housing, gentrification and displacement

Graduate students from the City & Metropolitan Planning Department presented their community-based engagement projects for the fall 2022 semester in partnership with 14 organizations in Utah. Students from the seminar ‘Community Engagement in Planning’ worked to engage local communities and connect with neighbors in the valley, creating an opportunity to reflect, collectively build knowledge and […]

CMP work on Thriving in Place SLC received the High Achievement Award at the 2022 Utah Planning Awards

The City and Metropolitan Planning Department earned the High Achievement Award from the American Planning Association Utah chapter for their work on the Thriving in Place SLC project. The initiative, a collaborative effort in Salt Lake City and Baird + Driskell Community Planning, developed a plan of action to address the factors that are forcing neighbors to […]

Meet Valarie Williams, Master of City and Metropolitan Planning student – Fall 2022

Valarie was a student at the Westside Leadership Institute in the Spring of 2020. She took the ‘Zoning for Equity’ course in the City and Metropolitan Planning department as the only non-U student (but a resident of the west side), and after that experience, she fell in love with the field and applied for the […]

A place for pollinators on campus

Financed by the Sustainable Campus Initiative Fund (SCIF), members of the Associated Students of the University of Utah (ASUU) and the U of U Beekeepers Association revamped the U’s water and pollinator conservation garden at the College of Architecture + Planning. Volunteers from the ASUU Enviro Club updated the official Pollinator-Conservation Garden on campus in collaboration […]

Dark sky’s future leaders

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 […]

First Dark Sky Studies minor in the U.S.

The W. M. Keck Foundation has awarded $250,000 to the University of Utah to establish a new undergraduate minor in dark sky studies, the first of its kind in the United States. Dark sky studies is an emerging field that explores the impacts of artificial light at night and the loss of our night skies […]

Merging research and design

The University of Utah recently approved creation of the Center for Ecological Planning and Design. The new center merges the provisional Ecological Planning Center and the Integrated Technology in Architecture Center — both in the College of Architecture + Planning — in a new partnership with the Global Change and Sustainability Center. The Center for […]