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English
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Another Gridded Street Plan?
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Round Table : Cartography and the Founding of Salt Lake City
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Utah Histoical Quarterly
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2019
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87
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3
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Champaign, Illinois
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University of Illinois Press
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209-216
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What is so special about a city plan with another gridded street pattern? There are many examples in the United States of city and town plans using a square or rectangular grid as the basis for their street pattern and lot sales. A review of the geographical and temporal context of the use of this ubiquitous town plan pattern will help explain the significance of the 1847 plat of Salt Lake City, the subject of this roundtable discussion [Author]