Research Paper on:
Salt Lake City's Land Use and Organization

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SALT LAKE CITY The difference in the way that Salt Lake City was settled and the way that other settlements in the early west were founded were numerous. Salt  Lake City was founded by the religious group the Mormons as a purposefully designed settlement to meet the needs of their religious and living needs. The original name of  their settlement was "Kingdom of God on Earth" (McCormick, 2002, PG). Just because, however, that this great city was founded by a group with similar goals, an organized group belonging  to the same religious sect, did not mean the history of this town was not fraught with difficulties and arguments however. It took nearly an entire generation before the  settlement became what it was originally meant to be: "A grand experiment in centralized planning and cooperative imagination, it was a relatively self-sufficient, egalitarian, and homogeneous society based mainly on  irrigation agriculture and village industry. Religion infused almost every impulse, making it difficult to draw a line between religious and secular activities. A counterculture that differed in fundamental ways from  its contemporary American society, it was close-knit, cohesive, and unified, a closely-woven fabric with only a few broken threads. The hand of the Mormon Church was ever present and ever  active" (McCormick, 2002, PG). After a tumultuous several years during which the city was decidedly split between the Mormons and the Non-Mormons, the city finally became one that was  much like any other urban settlement. As the United States was seen to accept an urbanized appearance, so Salt Lake City followed suit. The federal governments programs were  adopted as they were in other cities, and it would seem that Salt Lake City had the same type urbanization scenario as that of any city in the United States.