UP 378 |
Syllabus |
Scope of Sevices |
Work Plan |
Tool Kit |
Neighborhood Information |
ASNI Communication |
LA 338 |
ARCH 374 |
UP 378 Community Development Workshop introduces students to the community development practice, from an empowerment planning perspective, by offering participants the opportunity to collaborate with East St. Louis residents in the completion of a comprehensive redevelopment plan for a severely distressed neighborhood. Workshop students will cooperate with leaders of East St. Louis's Alta Sita Neighborhood Association in designing a five-year revitalization plan for their community. Workshop participants will be introduced to core theories and methods of neighborhood planning; will formulate a research design and scope of services to investigate existing conditions; will collect and analyze data needed to devise effective solutions to local problems that build on available community assets; and will produce planning documents local leaders can use to guide their future revitalization efforts.
Throughout the semester,
UP 378 students will have the opportunity to work closely with students
enrolled in LA 338 and ARCH 374 who will be assisting the workshop in developing
physical designs that address local environmental problems, enhance neighborhood
aesthetics, expand affordable housing options and promote safer streets.
This interdisciplinary aspect of UP 378 will prepare students for future
professional roles where such collaboration with other design professionals
is quite common.
1.) Expose planning and design students to critical environmental, economic, social and political problems confronting residents of our state's most distressed urban neighborhoods;
2.) Introduce students to the principles and practice of contemporary community development from an empowerment planning perspective;
3.) Enhancing the community development knowledge and skills of participating students through active involvement in the design, implementation and evaluation of a challenging neighborhood planning project for an actual partner;
4.) Offer planning students the opportunity to gain experience working in interdisciplinary teams to solve important urban problems undermining the quality of urban life;
5.) Engage students in
an ongoing dialogue regarding how local, state, and federal urban policies
can be changed to further enhance the organizational capacity of community-based
development organizations serving distressed urban communities, such as
East St. Louis.
1) 1/20 America's New Urban Poverty
Wilson, William Julius. 1996, "From Institutional to Jobless Ghettos" and "Societal Changes and Vulnerable Neighborhoods," in When Work Disappears: The Work of the New Urban Poor. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, pp. 3-50.
2) 1/27 Promoting Community-Based Development
Glickman, Norman J. and
Lisa J. Servon. 1997. "More Than Bricks and Sticks: What is Community Development
Capacity?" New Brunswick: Center for Urban Policy
Research, Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey,
pp 1-39.
Lemann, Nicholas. 1994. "The Myth of Community Development," in The New York Times Magazine, January 9, 1994, pp. 28-31, 50, 54,60.
3) 2/3 Pursuing an Empowerment Approach to Community Development Planning
Reardon, Kenneth M. 1998. "Enhancing the Capacity of Community-Based Organizations in East St. Louis," in the Journal of Planning Education and Research, 17:323-333.
4) 2/10 Establishing a Sustainable Community Development Planning Partnership
Anderson, Larz T. 1995. "Phase I: Identify the Client andParticipants; Draft and Review the Planning Program," in Guidelines for Preparing Urban Plans. Chicago: APA Planners Press, pp. 25-44.
5) 2/17 Collecting and Reviewing Available Study Area Data
Porterfield, Gerald A. and Kenneth B. Hall, Jr. 1995. "Groundwork: Where Do I Begin?" in A Concise Guide to Community Planning. New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc., pp. 21-36.
6) 2/24 Understanding the Built Environment
Jacobs, Alan B. 1985. "Clues," in Looking at Cities. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, p. 30-83.
7) 3/3 Studying the Social Organization of the Community
Kretzman, John P. and John L. McKnight. 1993. "Releasing the Power of Local Associations and Organizations," in Building Communities From the Inside Out. Chicago: ACTA Publications, Inc., pp. 109-142.
Thomas, June Manning and
Reynard N. Blake, Jr. 1996. "Faith-Based Community Development
and the African
American Community,"
in Revitalizing Urban Neighborhoods, edited by W. Dennis Keating, Norman
Krumholz and Philip Star. Lawrence: The University Press of Kansas, pp.
131-147.
8) 3/10 Learning from the Residents
Whyte, William F. and Kathleen King Whyte. 1984. "Interviewing Strategy and Tactics," and "Recording, Indexing and Evaluating Data," in Learning from the Field: A Guide from Experience. Newbury Park: Sage Publications Inc., pp. 97-112, 113-127.
9) 3/15-22 SPRING BREAK
10) 3/24 Analyzing the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats Confronting a Neighborhood (SWOT Analysis)
Jones, Bernie. 1990. "The Substance of the Plan," in Neighborhood Planning: A Guide to Citizens and Planners. Chicago: Planners' Press, pp. 39-100.
11) 3/31 Preparing the Planning Document
Gregory, Michelle. 1996. Anatomy of a Neighborhood Plan: An Analysis of Current Practice. Chicago: APA Growing Smart Working Paper, pp. 1-25.
Anderson, Larz T. 1995. "Phase V: Prepare, Review and Adopt District Plans," in Guidelines for Preparing UrbanPlans. Chicago: APA Planners Press, pp. 127-150.
12) 4/7 Developing a Program Budget
Cozzetto, Don A., Mary Grisez Kweit, and Robert A. Kweit. 1995. "The Search for a Budget Theory," in Public Budgeting: Politics, Institutions and Processes. White Plains: New York, pp. 188-222.
13) 4/14 Financing Your Community Development Plan
Bartsch, Charles. 1995. "Government and Neighborhoods:Programs Promoting Community Development," in Exploring Urban America: An Introductory Reader, edited by Roger W. Caves. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications Inc., pp. 285-327.
14) 4/21 Mobilizing Community Support for Your Plan
Cortes, Jr., Ernesto. 1993. Reweaving the Fabric: The Iron Rule and the IAF Strategy for Power and Politics, inInterwoven Destinies: Cities and the Nations, edited by Henry G. Cisneros. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, pp. 294-319.
15) 4/28 Evaluation of Local Community Development Programs
Briggs, Xavier de Souza, Elizabeth J. Mueller and Mercer Sullivan. 1997. "Executive Summary," in From Neighborhood to Community: Evidence on the Social Effects of Community Development. New York: The New School for Social Research, pp. 1-23.
16) 5/5 Vidal, Avis
C. 1997. "Can Community Development Re-Invent Itself? The Challenges of
Strengthening Neighborhoods in the 21st Century," in the Journal of the
American Planning Association, Volume 63, Number 4, Autumn,
pp. 429-438.
East St. Louis Monitor
Newspaper (a weekly) will be placed in the DURP mail room for student reading.
Information of particular relevance for our workshop project has been posted at the following location for your convenience:
For information regarding our sister courses in architecture and landscape architecture please visit:
http://www.arch.uiuc.edu/people/faculty/selby/courses/374.htm
Latonya Burton
Community Planner
Neighborhood Technical
Assistance Center
348 R Collinsville Avenue
East St. Louis, Illinois
(618) 271-9605
lburton@primary.net
Mr. Abhijeet Chavan
Project Coordinator
East St. Louis Action
Research Project
417 Noble Hall
UIUC
Champaign, Illinois 61820
(217) 244-6076
a-chavan@uiuc.edu
Deanna Koenings
Information Systems Staff
East St. Louis Action
Research Project
417 Noble Hall
UIUC
Champaign, Illinois 61820
(217) 244-6076
koenigs@uiuc.edu
Document author(s) : Cathy
Klump
Last modified: 4-Feb-99,
C. Klump
