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Paul Edward Nelson papers, 1960-2009

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Nelson, Paul Edward
Title
Paul Edward Nelson papers
Dates
1960-2009 (inclusive)
Quantity
18.25 linear feet
Collection Number
ACCN 2522
Summary
The Paul Edward Nelson papers (1960-2009) contain correspondence, reports, project proposals, research files, drawings, brochures, pamphlets, notes, articles, and manuscripts documenting Nelson's career as a planning and marketing consultant.
Repository
University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860

Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu
Access Restrictions

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Languages
English
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Historical Note

Paul Edward Nelson (1941-2010) was born in Los Angeles, California, to Sylvester and Edna Rich Nelson. He graduated from the University of Utah with a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science, and from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a Master's Degree in City and Regional Planning. He married Karen Lowe in 1965. The couple had four children. Nelson created a consulting firm, Paul Nelson Associates, and worked on a variety of projects, including the Intermountain Power Project and the Utah World Trade Center. He died in Salt Lake City on 9 March 2010.

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Content Description

The Paul Edward Nelson papers (1960-2009) contain correspondence, reports, project proposals, research files, drawings, brochures, pamphlets, notes, articles, and manuscripts documenting Nelson's career as a planning and marketing consultant.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

Preferred Citation

Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Boxes one and two contain documents related to Nelson's personal life and education. The rest of the collection contains material either used or produced by Nelson in conjunction with Paul Nelson Associates, his consulting firm. This material is organized in roughly chronological order.

Acquisition Information

Donated by Stephen, Richard, and Douglas Nelson, and by Jane Nelson Butters in 2010.

Processing Note

Processed by Karen Carver in 2010.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Personal and Education

    • Description: Biographical and Educational Information
      Dates: 1960s
      Container: Box 1, Folder 1
    • Description: Race
      Dates: 1960s-1970s
      Container: Box 1, Folder 2
    • Description: Reading
      Dates: 1960s-1970s
      Container: Box 1, Folder 3-4
    • Description: Ft. Stewart EDA Proposal
      Container: Box 1, Folder 5
    • Description: Administrative Manual for Consulting Planners
      Dates: 1970
      Container: Box 1, Folder 6
    • Description: Paul Nelson Term Paper, City Planning 627
      Dates: 1972
      Container: Box 1, Folder 7
    • Description: "Apartment Planning," City Planning 626
      Dates: 1972
      Container: Box 1, Folder 8
    • Description: "Recent Trends in Rural Growth Patterns"
      Dates: 1970s
      Container: Box 1, Folder 9
    • Description: Georgia Institute of Technology
      Dates: 1972-1973
      Container: Box 1, Folder 10
    • Description: "New Towns to Help Alleviate Central City Problems," Master Thesis
      Dates: 1977
      Container: Box 1, Folder 11
    • Description: Miscellaneous Personal
      Dates: 1977-2005
      Container: Box 2, Folder 1
    • Description: Edna R. Nelson
      Dates: 1991-2001
      Container: Box 2, Folder 2
    • Description: Jane Nelson
      Dates: 2002-2004
      Container: Box 2, Folder 3-4
    • Description: Doug Nelson
      Dates: 2004-2006
      Container: Box 2, Folder 5
    • Description: Paul Nelson Associates and Paul Nelson Resumes
      Container: Box 2, Folder 6
  • Paul Nelson Associates

  • Research and Proposals

  • Intermountain Power Project

  • Research and Proposals

    • Description: APA Planning and Research
      Dates: 1980s
      Container: Box 6, Folder 1
    • Description: Murray City
      Dates: 1980s
      Container: Box 6, Folder 2-3
    • Description: Campbell County, Wyoming, Surface Coal Mining
      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box 6, Folder 3-4
    • Description: Uintah Basin Synfuels Development EIS, Public Facilities and Services Analysis
      Dates: 1982
      Container: Box 7, Folder 1
    • Description: Moab City Properties Market Analysis
      Dates: 1982
      Container: Box 7, Folder 2
    • Description: Rental Housing Data
      Dates: 1985
      Container: Box 7, Folder 3
    • Description: Interstate Brick
      Dates: 1985-1986
      Container: Box 7, Folder 4
    • Description: Nuclear Waste Report
      Dates: 1985-1986
      Container: Box 7, Folder 5
    • Description: Traverse Ridge, Utah County
      Dates: 1986
      Container: Box 7, Folder 6
    • Description: "Reflections of Morris E. Johnson: Urban Planning in Utah"
      Dates: 1987
      Container: Box 7, Folder 7
    • Description: Woods Cross City Master Plans
      Dates: 1987-1990
      Container: Box 7, Folder 8
    • Description: Hill Air Force Base Feasibility Study
      Dates: 1987-1988
      Container: Box 7, Folder 9-10
    • Description: Hill Air Force Base Feasibility Study
      Dates: 1987-1988
      Container: Box 8, Folder 1-2
    • Description: Woods Cross City
      Dates: 1988-1990
      Container: Box 8, Folder 3
    • Description: Beck Street
      Dates: 1990s
      Container: Box 8, Folder 4
  • West Valley City and South Salt Lake

  • Salt Lake City Redevelopment Agency

  • Research and Proposals

    • Description: Fine Grain Neighborhood Plan, South Salt Lake
      Dates: 1990
      Container: Box 11, Folder 1
    • Description: KUER Advisory Board
      Dates: 1990-1991
      Container: Box 11, Folder 2
    • Description: Red Butte Gardens
      Dates: 1991
      Container: Box 11, Folder 3
    • Description: Provo City, Ironton Redevelopment Project
      Dates: 1999
      Container: Box 11, Folder 4
    • Description: Telephone Sales
      Dates: 2001
      Container: Box 11, Folder 5
    • Description: Funeral Homes
      Dates: 2001-2004
      Container: Box 11, Folder 6
  • Utah World Trade Center

  • Research and Proposals

    • Description: Wasatch County, Daniel Township Incorporation
      Dates: 2002-2005
      Container: Box 15
    • Description: Wasatch County, Daniel Township Incorporation
      Dates: 2002-2005
      Container: Box 16
    • Description: Summit County Budgets
      Dates: 1998-2003
      Container: Box 17, Folder 1
    • Description: Summit County Proposal
      Dates: 2002
      Container: Box 17, Folder 2
    • Description: Summit County, Bear Hollow Village
      Dates: 2003
      Container: Box 17, Folder 3
    • Description: Greyfield Regional Mall Study
      Dates: 2001
      Container: Box 17, Folder 4
    • Description: Grantsville Economic Development Agency
      Dates: 2001-2003
      Container: Box 17, Folder 5
    • Description: Urban Land Reform
      Dates: 2002
      Container: Box 17, Folder 6
    • Description: U.S.D.A. Food Aid
      Dates: 2002-2005
      Container: Box 17, Folder 7
  • Local vs. Chain

    • Description: Local Merchants vs. Chain Retailers
      Dates: 2002-2004
      Container: Box 18, Folder 1-3
    • Description: Tony Weller
      Dates: 2003-2004
      Container: Box 18, Folder 4
    • Description: Need for WalMart
      Dates: 2003
      Container: Box 18, Folder 5
  • China-Utah Project

    • Description: Planning and Research
      Dates: 2005-2006
      Container: Box 19, Folder 1-3
    • Description: Joint Projects
      Dates: 2005
      Container: Box 19, Folder 4
    • Description: Notes from Shanghai
      Dates: 2005
      Container: Box 19, Folder 5
    • Description: Foreign
      Container: Box 19, Folder 6
  • Research and Proposals

    • Description: "On the Ethics of At-Will Employment and Relations in the Public Sector"
      Dates: 2003
      Container: Box 20, Folder 1
    • Description: Keith Elliott Garner Biography Marketing Strategies
      Dates: 2004
      Container: Box 20, Folder 2
    • Description: Meetings, How to
      Dates: 2005
      Container: Box 20, Folder 3
    • Description: SunRiver, St. George, Utah
      Dates: 2005
      Container: Box 20, Folder 4
    • Description: International Business Development Corporation
      Dates: 2005-2006
      Container: Box 20, Folder 5
    • Description: Clean Coal and C02 Sequestration
      Dates: 2006
      Container: Box 20, Folder 6
    • Description: Don Stringham, "Technology Transfer Tactics"
      Dates: 2008
      Container: Box 20, Folder 7
    • Description: Advanced Manufacturing
      Container: Box 20, Folder 8
  • Fuels Development Group, LLC

  • Alternative Energy

    • Description: Preliminary Business Plan, "A New Generation of Transportation Fuels"
      Container: Box 22, Folder 1
    • Description: Bio Fuels Development Group
      Dates: 2006
      Container: Box 22, Folder 2
    • Description: Alternative Energy
      Dates: 2007
      Container: Box 22, Folder 3-4
  • Miscellaneous Projects

    • Description: Mine and Construction Worker Housing, Vol. II
      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box 23, Folder 1
    • Description: Residential Subdivisions and Surface Mining
      Dates: 1981-1982
      Container: Box 23, Folder 2
    • Description: Downtown Salt Lake City
      Dates: 1988-2003
      Container: Box 23, Folder 3
    • Description: Summit and Wasatch Counties, General
      Container: Box 23, Folder 4
    • Description: U of U Graduate School of Architecture Notes
      Container: Box 23, Folder 5
    • Description: Affordable Housing
      Dates: 2000-2003
      Container: Box 24, Folder 1
    • Description: Bluffdale Housing
      Dates: 2000
      Container: Box 24, Folder 2
    • Description: Wasatch Front Socioeconomic Projections
      Dates: 2001
      Container: Box 24, Folder 3
    • Description: Housing, Jordan Bluffs
      Dates: 2004
      Container: Box 24, Folder 4
  • Oversize Material

    • Description: General Material

      Contains research conducted relative to the Intermountain Power Project and the MX Missile Project.

      Container: Box 25
    • Description: Site-Plans and Maps

      Intermountain Power Project Railcar Service Center; SSC Site Community, Delle/Utah; Wasatch County Property and Zoning, Daniel Township; PNA Digest, Real Estate Development 4th Quarter 1989; Site Plan, Mobile Home Equestrian Park; Murray City Redevelopment

      Dates: 1980-2005
      Container: Tube 26
  • World Trade Center

    • Description: Foreign Trade Research
      Dates: 2004-2005
      Container: Box 27, Folder 1-4
    • Description: WTC Research
      Dates: 2004-2005
      Container: Box 27, Folder 5-6
  • Project Files

    • Description: WTC Research
      Dates: 2004-2005
      Container: Box 28, Folder 1
    • Description: Notes, Preliminary Report (WTC)
      Container: Box 28, Folder 2
    • Description: People
      Dates: 2005
      Container: Box 28, Folder 3
    • Description: Utah Higher Education Institutions
      Container: Box 28, Folder 4
    • Description: Project Manager's Manual
      Container: Box 28, Folder 5
    • Description: West Jordan Economic Development
      Dates: 1994
      Container: Box 28, Folder 6
    • Description: Miscellaneous Proposals
      Dates: 1980s
      Container: Box 29, Folder 1
    • Description: Salt Lake Economic Development
      Dates: 2001-2005
      Container: Box 29, Folder 2
    • Description: BLM Scenic Byway Master Plan
      Dates: 2000s
      Container: Box 29, Folder 3
    • Description: Impact Study, Campbell County Wyoming
      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box 29, Folder 4
    • Description: Worker Housing Feasibility, Gillette Wyoming
      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box 29, Folder 5-6

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Subject Terms

  • Consultants--Utah
  • Marketing--Utah
  • Planning--Utah

Personal Names

  • Nelson, Paul E.(Paul Edward), 1941-2010--Archives

Form or Genre Terms

  • Articles
  • Brochures
  • Correspondence
  • Notes
  • Pamphlets
  • Proposals
  • Reports
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