The original plat of the City of Zion (Independence, Missouri). The plat of Zion, or a modified version called the "grid system," has subsequently been the basis for the plans of most Western U.S. communities.

The plat of Zion is a plat (a standard city plan) used in the construction of hundreds of Mormon and Western United States communities. Designed around Latter Day Saint principles of agrarianism and community, the plan called for 24 temples at the city's center, reflecting the central role played by the church in the community. The temples were to be used for education, worship and cultural events, similar to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints' Conference Center. Image File history File links Zionplat2. ... The original plat of the City of Zion (Independence, Missouri). ... (see sister state for authors message down) Independence is a city located in Missouri, in the Kansas City metropolitan area. ... A contemporary plat map showing the location of a property for sale. ... Urban, city, or town planning, deals with design of the built environment from the municipal and metropolitan perspective. ... The Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the most-recognized architectural symbol of Mormonism Mormonism is a religion, movement, ideology, and subculture that originated in the early 1800s as a product of the Latter Day Saint movement led principally by Joseph Smith... A Latter Day Saint is an adherent of the Latter Day Saint movement, a group of religions tracing their heritage to the teachings of Joseph Smith, Jr. ... Agrarianism is a social and political philosophy. ... The Salt Lake Temple is the most well-known Mormon Temple. ... This is the current Mormon collaboration of the month! Please help improve it to meet the ideal article standard. ... View of Conference Center spire taken from south of the Center on North Temple St. ...

The original plan calls for a city of around 20,000 people living in a one square mile grid of streets. The streets are laid out on the cardinal directions of the compass (East, South, West, North). A square mile is an Imperial unit of area equal to that of a square with sides each 1 statute mile (5,280 feet, 1,760 yards, 1,609. ... The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST, internally called HT-7U) is a project being undertaken to construct an experimental superconducting tokamak magnetic fusion energy reactor in Hefei, the capital city of Anhui Province, in eastern China. ... A compass rose with South highlighted South is most commonly a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography. ... A compass rose with west highlighted This article refers to the cardinal direction; for other uses see West (disambiguation). ... Compass rose with north highlighted and at top North is one of the four cardinal directions, specifically the direction that, in Western culture, is treated as the primary direction: north is used (explicitly or implicitly) to define all other directions; the (visual) top edges of maps usually correspond to the...

The original plan did not account for larger communities; once a city had reached the 20,000 limit it was envisaged that a new, separate city would be founded. Subsequently larger cities have been built, while still following the principles of the original design - Salt Lake City, Utah and surrounding communities are one of largest example of the plan, although a modified "grid system" is used in Phoenix, Arizona, the sixth largest city in the U.S. and over a thousand other communities in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Idaho, Oregon and Wyoming. Flag Seal Nickname: Crossroads of the West Location Location of Salt Lake City in Salt Lake County, Utah Coordinates , Government County Salt Lake Mayor Rocky Anderson Geographical characteristics Area     City 285. ... Nickname: Valley of the Sun Location in Maricopa County and the state of Arizona Coordinates: Country United States State Arizona Counties Maricopa Incorporated February 25, 1881 Mayor Phil Gordon (D) Area    - City 1,230. ...

See also:

• Zion (Mormonism)

The original plat of the City of Zion (Independence, Missouri). ...

External links

• Mormon city planning
• Plat of the city of Zion, by Joseph Smith, Jr.