Salt Lake City is the 124th largest city in the United States by population (191,000) and is the largest city of the Salt Lake City Metropolitan Statistical Area (1,153,000) in Utah.
The city is well-documented in the forums on SkyscraperPage.com so I will forego any labeling or commentary. What I am calling 'Downtown' is actually a combination of Downtown, Temple Square (several blocks immediately North of Downtown that are occupied by the headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints), Capitol Hill (the neighborhood North of Temple Square whose hill is topped by the state's capitol buildings), and a strip of several blocks along E. South Temple Street just East of Downtown.
I am dividing my photos into three threads, with the photos ordered in a very loose interpretation of a timeline of architectural styles regardless of which neighborhood they occupy.
We don't talk about SLC much here. I look at the project page occasionally but it's so repetetive that it's a chore to glean much. I've never really seen SLC but my impression is lots of good revival architecture, very clean, pretty spread out and suburban despite some good downtown aspects, incredibly wide streets plus narrow through-block lanes...
Nice pictures. It looks like Salt Lake City has some good older history. Would you consider it one of the more historic cities in the West, based on early Mormon settlement?
I kind of did. It wasn't even my personal choice, but they took me over there on a very large tour of the Southwest US. I never was disappointed, although kayaking is sure much better and sensational in the French Alps than in Colorado. They bastards don't mind about torturing and hurting you in France, that's the whole thing.
mhays and xzmattzx,
I had only been there once before for a few days in 2002, and this time I felt that it had progressed but not as much as I had hoped. Downtown is pleasant and clean, but not large enough to warrant much excitement. The streets are certainly too wide in most cases and that does not help the human scale of getting around. As for historic architecture, what is there is primarily treasured now but it does not strike me as a particularly historic-feeling city; the fact that I am featuring a majority of the core's historic buildings in a few threads surely makes it appear to be more impressive than it is!
I like the organization of these photos. They Progress nicely.
I am from Salt Lake City and could post something but my photos would not look as good as geomorph's. There are other members from SLC here who have much more talent.
They bastards don't mind about torturing and hurting you in France, that's the whole thing.
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