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U R BAN T H EO RY & D ES IG N This fall 2018, Professor Caroline Lavoie’s urban design
• Significance of the rivers
studio took on the challenge of planning and designing for
• Reconnecting assets
1300 acres in Ogden, Utah. With the great help of Greg Montgomery (BLA 1980), LAEP students engaged in analysis,
The students presented to the City Council in April. Their
conceptual design and illustrations of selected sites along
vision, plans, ideas and document proved to be very useful
the west sides of Ogden between the Ogden and Weber
and embraced by the City of Ogden. The physical model
Rivers. They investigated how the railyard and the rivers
produced is currently in display at the City Hall and used
related to the City of Ogden, and how these areas have the
by City officials, staff and general population of Ogden to
potential to enrich the city’s identity by improving existing
discuss the ideas proposed by the students. The class-wide
districts and creating new ones.
project won a 2019 Utah ASLA Honor Award in May. Very well deserved!
As a class, the project area was broken into six different districts, each with unique challenges and opportunities. Throughout the project, four major themes presented themselves for each team to address as they came up a consensus for design. These themes highlight how to reconnect to the city: • Rediscovering history • Reconnecting community
“The students have done an amazing job of imaging the future and what the future can entail and catching some of the things that we’ve had on our minds for a long time.” Tom Christopulos, Ogden Director of Community and Economic Development
