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The Mesazona Blogspot (mesazona.blogspot.com) is a localized Mesa, Arizona blog created by local advocate and blogger Tim Mello.

It primarily focuses on community-driven development, affordable housing advocacy, transit-oriented development, and local historical highlights in the Mesa and Phoenix metropolitan areas. [1, 2, 3]

Mesa history: A shady story for downtown district

Mesa has long viewed its downtown district with an eye toward improvements to keep it from being an eyesore

Arizona Republic

Nov. 24, 2016, 7:12 a.m. MT

Once billing itself the “Gem City,” Mesa has always prided itself on being a beautiful community.

When it was once a small town, it could concentrate efforts in the original square mile. . ."

The City of Zion Plat

Courtesy of the Church Archives

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
https://latterdaysaintmag.com/article-1-8673/

At a time when farmers were establishing individual farms across the American Midwest, Joseph Smith taught that farmers should live in small organized cities where “the farmer and his family . . . will enjoy all the advantages of schools, public lectures and other meetings. His home will no longer be isolated, and his family denied the benefits of society, which has been, and always will be, the great educator of the human race; but they will enjoy the same privileges of society, and can surround their homes with the same intellectual life, the same social refinement as will be found in the home of the merchant or banker or professional man” (from B. H. Roberts, A Comprehensive History of the Church, 1:312, as cited in Richard H. Jackson, “The Mormon Village: Genesis and Antecedents of the City of Zion Plan,” page 230, in BYU Studies 17 [Winter 1977]: 223-240).

Joseph Smith's Plan for the City of Zion

YouTube

Salt Lake City Television - SLCtv · 0:55

Salt Lake City - History Minute - Plats of Zion

Uploaded: Jun 24, 2014

A funny thing is happening in many US cities

The Old Donut Hole

FUN WITH WORDS: The Doughnut/Donut Duality

Long-time readers of this blog might remember the usage of an altered image of a "Doughnut" or "Donut" to help explain the demise of a defunct central business district described tongue-in-cheek as The Old Donut Hole.

It appears for illustration purposes as Downtown, even though there is no point of comparison or what is normally associated with it - Uptown.

There is no area in common usage that people who live here reference as "Uptown". . there never was one of those when all the growth in population and home-building moved outside of the CBD to The Suburbs.

And please note that word is distinctly plural (more than one).

People swarmed like bees into new tracts of block homes - block after block after block, lots of blocks that dotted empty fields.

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Doughnut Or Donut? The Great Spelling Debate Of Our Time

We're about to take you on a quest to discover the term's origin, and its inevitable path toward ruin. You may want to grab a doughnut for this one.

By Kristen Aiken

HuffPost

Doughnuts have become an integral part of American culture, loved for providing us with mouths full of comfort and loathed for ruining our diets. Beyond this love/hate relationship is another duality we apparently feel very passionately about: The correct spelling. Is it doughnut or donut?