scholarly journals Characterizing the fabric of the urban environment: A case study of Salt Lake City, Utah

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hashem Akbari ◽  
L. Shea Rose
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Salt Lake ◽  
Salt Lake City ◽  
Lake City

Mythologizing Memories: A Critique of the Utah Korean War Memorial

2012 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suhi Choi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Korean War ◽  
Salt Lake ◽  
Salt Lake City ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fiftieth Anniversary ◽  
Collective Memories ◽  
The Korean War ◽  
Lake City

Abstract Since its fiftieth anniversary, memorialization of the Korean War has taken place in towns and cities across the United States. As a case study of this belated memory boom, this essay looks at the Utah Korean War Memorial, erected by local veterans in 2003 at Memory Grove Park, Salt Lake City. Situated in both the local and national contexts of remembrance, the memorial resonates largely with three mythical scripts, with themes of resilience, local pride, and the good war, all of which have allowed veterans to negotiate tensions between individual and collective memories. This case study reveals in particular how the official commemoration of the war has shifted local veterans' rhetorical positions from potential witnesses of subversive realities of the war to uncritical negotiators whose legitimization of the very process of mythologizing memories has ultimately alienated them from their own experiences during and after the war.

Addressing the Irish world: Éamon de Valera's ‘Cuban policy’ as a global case study

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (165) ◽  
pp. 41-56
Author(s):  
Darragh Gannon
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Salt Lake ◽  
Salt Lake City ◽  
The United States ◽  
Foreign Experience ◽  
Irish Republic ◽  
Lake City ◽  
The Impact

AbstractWriting in Nationalist revolutionaries in Ireland, 1858–1928, Tom Garvin observed that ‘well over 40 per cent, perhaps 50 per cent, had lived outside Ireland for considerable periods … foreign experience was very important in the development of the leaders’. The impact of ‘foreign experience’ on leading nationalist revolutionaries, this article submits, pace Garvin, could have proved influential in the development of the Irish Revolution more widely. Between June 1919 and December 1920, Éamon de Valera toured the United States. From New York City to Salt Lake City, Alabama to Montana, the self-proclaimed president of the Irish republic addressed ‘Ireland’ in hundreds of interviews and speeches. Of these myriad public statements, his Cuban missive, notably, crossed national boundaries. Comparing Ireland's geo-strategic relationship with Great Britain to that of Cuba and the United States, de Valera's argument for an independent Irish republic was made in the Americas. How did de Valera's movement across the U.S. alter his political views of Ireland? How were presentations of de Valera's ‘Cuban policy’ mediated across the ‘Irish world’? How did discourse on the Monroe Doctrine inform Anglo-Irish negotiations between Truce and Treaty? Exploring de Valera's ‘Cuban policy’ as global case study, this article concludes, ultimately, can shift the historiographical significance of ‘foreign experience’ from nationalist revolutionaries in Ireland to the flows and circulation of transnational revolution.

scholarly journals Safety and Nonoptimal Usage of a Protected Intersection for Bicycling and Walking: A Before-and-After Case Study in Salt Lake City, Utah

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (21) ◽  
pp. 9195
Author(s):  
Torrey Lyons ◽  
Dong-ah Choi ◽  
Keunhyun Park ◽  
S. Hassan Ameli
Keyword(s):  
Salt Lake ◽  
Salt Lake City ◽  
Active Transportation ◽  
Video Data ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Transportation Modes ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Lake City ◽  
And Behavior

This paper describes a before-and-after case study of a protected intersection in Salt Lake City, Utah. The intersection was completed in late 2015 and represented one of the first examples of a protected intersection design in North America. We analyzed bird’s-eye view video data that was recorded before the intersection was implemented and compared it against video data recorded from the exact same location after implementation. In order to examine changes in intersection usage and behavior, we operationalized safety in terms of the frequency of nonoptimal behaviors demonstrated by active transportation modes. We found that active transportation usage of the intersection has increased since the new configuration, with most of that growth attributable to e-scooter users. There was minimal change in the rates of nonoptimal behaviors by pedestrians. Bicyclists showed mostly decreased rates of nonoptimal behaviors, suggesting improved safety for this mode. E-scooter users, however, demonstrated nonoptimal behaviors at very high rates as compared with other active modes. This case study gives evidence that a protected intersection can have positive effects on active transportation volume and safety in a U.S. context.

National Evaluation of Weed and Seed: Salt Lake City Case Study

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terence Dunworth ◽  
Gregory Mills ◽  
Jack Greene ◽  
Jennifer H. Frank ◽  
Kristen Jacoby
Keyword(s):  
Salt Lake ◽  
Salt Lake City ◽  
Lake City

Professional-Patron Influence on Site-Based Governance Councils: A Confounding Case Study

1988 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 251-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Betty Malen ◽  
Rodney T. Ogawa
Keyword(s):  
Salt Lake ◽  
Salt Lake City ◽  
School Policy ◽  
Reform Strategy ◽  
Professional Control ◽  
Role Orientations ◽  
Lake City ◽  
Teachers And Parents ◽  
And Training

Case studies of site-based governance councils in Salt Lake City, Utah, provided the basis for testing whether building-based councils with broad jurisdiction, formal policymaking authority, parity protections, and training provisions actually enable teachers and parents to exert substantial influence on school policy. Despite the existence of these highly favorable arrangements, teachers and parents did not wield significant influence on significant issues in these decision arenas. Other factors, notably the composition of the councils, the relative power and role orientations of principals and professionals, norms of propriety and civility, the nature of district oversight and support, a congenial culture, and stable environment intervened to transform policymaking bodies into auxiliary units, convert teacher-parent parity to principal-professional control, and maintain rather than alter the influence relationships typically and traditionally found in schools. The implications of this research for those who advocate site-based governance as a potent reform strategy are discussed.

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