Personal Interviews, Fall 2001 and Spring 2002

 

Ceola Davis, Emerson Park resident and founder of EPDC

Richard Suttle, Sr., Emerson Park resident and board member

Peggy Hume, Emerson Park resident and board member

Cathy Tucker, Emerson Park resident and board member

Doug Borders, former Emerson Park resident and founding member of EPDC

Vickie Forby, Executive Director of EPDC

Terrie Holder, EPDC and New Spirit Community Organization staff

Ella Rush, Emerson Park resident and board member

Pinkie Whittaker, Emerson Park resident and board member

Herb Reed, Emerson Park resident and board member

Kenneth Reardon, former University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign professor

Bill Kreeb, Executive Director, Lessie Bates Davis Neighborhood House

Lisa Graves, Lessie Bates Davis Neighborhood House

Sara Johnson, Emerson Park resident and EPDC member

James Jones, interim director of ESLCAN

Carolyn Dry, School of Architecture, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

 

Photo Credits

Photos provided by the Emerson Park Development Corporation, Lessie Bates Davis Neighborhood House, East St. Louis Action Research Project and Robert Selby, School of Architecture

 

References:

 

Emerson Park Data and Maps

Emerson Park Data Book: http://www.eslarp.uiuc.edu/ntac/emerson/databook/

Neighborhood Maps: http://www.eslarp.uiuc.edu/egrets/

Aerial Map: http://eslarp.uiuc.edu/la/LA338-S98/empark/green/Aerial.jpeg

http://www.eslarp.uiuc.edu/images/cdimages/1691/aboutimages.html

 

Emerson Park Development Corporation

Emerson Park Development Corporation site: http://www.eslarp.uiuc.edu/ntac/emerson/

Community Leading the Way Case Study, 2000.

Board Members, 2001.

EPDC By-Laws, 2001.

 

Emerson Park Plans

Emerson Park Improvement Plan, 1991: http://www.eslarp.uiuc.edu/durp/emerson91/main.html

Emerson Park Community Safety Plan, 1991: http://www.eslarp.uiuc.edu/durp/EPsafety/main.html

Master Plan, 1994: http://www.eslarp.uiuc.edu/images/cdimages/1691/aboutimages.html

Emerson Park Revitalization Plan, 1999: http://www.eslarp.uiuc.edu/ntac/emerson/databook/

 

Emerson Park Resident Stories

Emerson Park Narratives, 1998: http://www.eslarp.uiuc.edu/la/LA338-S98/empark/story.html

 

Lessie Bates Davis Neighborhood House

Welcome to Our House. Lessie Bates Davis Neighborhood House is a United Methodist Multi-Purpose Community Center: www.gbgm-umc.org/lessiebates/

State recognition of ninety years of ministry at the Lessie Bates Davis Neighborhood House. www.legis.state.il.us/legisnet/legisnet91/hrgroups/hr/910HR0904LV.html

 

MetroLink

MetroLink Transportation Plan: http://stlouis.bcentral.com/stlouis/stories/2001/12/17/focus1.html

East St. Louis Puts Transportation Planners On the Right Track by Patricia Nolan in Planners Network, Sept/Oct 1997: http://www.plannersnetwork.org/htm/pub/archives/125/estlouis.htm

Let’s Get This Train Rollin’ in Southwest Illinois News. May 4, 2001: http://www.swi-news.com/SWI-ETC.htm

St Louis Regional Transit Facts & Figures: http://www.bi-state.org/facts.html

MetroLink Photos, 2001: http://www.eslarp.uiuc.edu/ntac/emerson/parsons-metrolink/index.html

Student Designs, 1996: http://www.eslarp.uiuc.edu/arch/ARCH372-SP96/main.html

 

Parsons Place

Parsons Place Housing Design: http://www.eslarp.uiuc.edu/ntac/emerson/parsons/index.html

Parsons Place Photos, 2001: http://www.eslarp.uiuc.edu/ntac/emerson/parsons-metrolink/index.html

 

Housing

Housing Development Opportunities: http://www.ewgateway.org/archives/PRs/PRs1999/PR1999-2/pr1999-2.htm

Blitz Build, 1998: http://www.eslarp.uiuc.edu/clips/blitzbuild98/index.htm

Neighborhood-based Family Housing Program: http://www.eslarp.uiuc.edu/overview/pdf/8.pdf

Housing Rehabilitation, 1998: http://www.eslarp.uiuc.edu/outreach/9804a/index.htm

 

 

Cannady Park and Landscaping

East St. Louis Park District Report: http://www.eslarp.uiuc.edu/ntac/resources/ParkReport01/

Cannady Park Renovation, 1998: http://www.eslarp.uiuc.edu/outreach/9805/images/index.htm

 

Enterprise Community and Empowerment Zone

Empowerment Zoning: http://stlouis.bcentral.com/stlouis/stories/1999/07/12/weekinbiz.html

Bank of America Loans in East St. Louis: http://stlouis.missouri.org/ez/docs/ez_implement4.html

EZ Implementation Plan, 1999: http://www.eslarp.uiuc.edu/ntac/emerson/plan99/chapter4.html

Enterprise Community, 1999: http://www.eslarp.uiuc.edu/durp/UP299-S99/ecdata.htm

 

Awards

Focus Saint Louis: http://www.focus-stl.org/abou/abou.htm

Awards given to ESL community activists, 1999: http://www.eslarp.uiuc.edu/ntac/emerson/plan99/index.html\

Ms. Ceola Davis and Emerson Park Development Corporation receive regional awards, ESLARP News, 1999: http://www.eslarp.uiuc.edu/news/awards11-99.html

 

University of Illinois

ESLARP: http://www.eslarp.uiuc.edu

NTAC: http://www.eslarp.uiuc.edu/ntac/index.htm

Emerson Park: http://www.arch.uiuc.edu/people/faculty/selby/esl/ep.html

Dry, Carolyn. 1989. East St. Louis Revitalization Project. Volume II: Student Architectural Design Projects. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Reardon, Kenneth. 2000. An Experimental Approach To Creating an Effective Community-University Partnership: The East St. Louis Action Research Project. Citiscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research, 5(1): 59-74.

Reardon, Kenneth. 1998. Back From the Brink: The East St. Louis Story. Gateway Heritage, Winter.

Reardon, Kenneth. 1998. Enhancing the Capacity of Community-Based Organizations in East St. Louis. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 17: 323-333.

 

Urban Poverty, Neighborhood Decline and Economic Restructuring

Downs, Anthony. 1981. Neighborhoods and Urban Development. Chapter 5: Stages of Neighborhood Change. Washington DC: Brookings Institute.

Farley, John E. 2000. Majority-Minority Relations, Fourth Edition. Chapter 10: The American Economic System and the Status of Minority Groups Today. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Medoff, Peter & Holly Sklar. 1994. Streets of Hope: The Rise and Fall of an Urban Neighborhood. South End Press: Boston.

Peterman, William. 2000. Neighborhood Planning and Community-Based Development: The Potential and Limits of Grassroots Action. Sage: Thousand Oak.

Skogan, Wesley G. 1990. Disorder and Decline: Crime and the Spiral of Decay in American Neighborhoods. Chapter 1: Disorder and Neighborhood Life. New York: The Free Press.