Item Detail
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17413
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English
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Colliding Interests : Mapping Salt Lake City's West Side
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Journal of Urban History
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2011
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31
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no.1
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47-74
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"Histories of Salt Lake City have emphasized the homogeneity of the settlement experience of what was for the Mormons a sacred city. Salt Lake was settled by a group of believers in the same God who followed the prophetic leadership of the same man and lived lives distinguished by unconventional beliefs. These beliefs functioned as boundaries between the Mormons and outsiders. In the urban context, these beliefs became embedded in geographical lines that isolated those who were different from the hegemony of the Mormon world. This was manifested in a visual and physical sense in the division between the East Side and the West Side. Eventually, the physical line between the two sides of the city were loaded with meaning. Mapping the landscape works in combination with written primary source materials, photographs, and oral interviews to search for relationships between people and space and attempts to understand the ways social and spatial realities intercept over time." [journal abstract]