Salt Lake City - Downtown - Part 2

[geomorph]

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. This one will start with some general streetscape scenes, mostly along Main Street, to give a grander picture of Downtown before resuming with the focus on architectural styles.





















































































There is a very large break from pre-World War 2 architecture to post-World War 2 in my photos!



















































































































All photographs taken in 2015 by geomorph.

For my other Salt Lake City threads, see:

Downtown - Part 1: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=221007

Downtown - Part 3: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=221036

[dktshb]

Very nice. There is such a clean, orderly and homogeneous quality about SLC.

[xzmattzx]

Nice pictures.

One Utah Center is a nice example of Postmodern architecture.

[Murphy de la Sucre]

Can I be sure that walking in SLC downtown is safer than other cities? The safest and most comfortable.

Please note NYC midtown is relatively safe because of so many tourists but not comfortable because of so many tourists.

[geomorph]

Murphy de la Sucre,
I certainly felt safe walking around Salt Lake City, and it was mostly comfortable. There is certainly a large homeless population near the former Rio Grande train station, but not much evidence of it elsewhere that I saw.

[Murphy de la Sucre]

It looks cleaner and safer than others.

[geomorph]

I think this particular thread of the 3 I posted pertaining to downtown has quite a few shots of the Temple Square and nearby area, which are certainly kept clean by the church!

[delts145]

I did my regular power walk through the streets of Central and Downtown L.A. this morning. I usually try to manage 90 minutes or more. Fast enough for a good cardio, but slow enough to really get to know all of the different neighborhoods. One thing I would like to know is if the property owners in the Salt Lake City area are held to a higher standard of personal responsibility in keeping their property surroundings clean? We have got to do something different about the trash on the parkways/curbsides of Central and Downtown. Los Angeles. I never thought about when I lived in Salt Lake City. I just took the cleanliness for granted. There has got to be something we can do here in Los Angeles to make property owners more responsible for cleaning up their street engagements.