EAST ST. LOUIS ACTION RESEARCH PROJECT

ESLARP Newsletter - September 1999

To read this newsletter as a web page visit
  ../newsletter/9909.htm

Contents:

* PRESIDENT CLINTON VISITS EAST ST. LOUIS, JULY 6, 1999
* ESLARP TECHNOLOGY PRESENTED AT URISA CONFERENCE, CHICAGO
* FALL 1999 ESLARP COURSES
* ILLINOIS BOTTOMLAND EXPLORER (IBEX) RELEASED
* EAST ST. LOUIS PHOENIX WEBSITE
* NEW VERSION OF EGRETS RELEASED
* GOOD-BYE! 
* HELLO
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PRESIDENT CLINTON VISITS EAST ST. LOUIS, JULY 6, 1999

President Clinton's New Markets Initiative brought him to East St. Louis 
on Tuesday July 6th, 1999. The faculty, staff and students of ESLARP and 
the NTAC were there in full force. With him and his entourage were East 
St. Louis' Mayor Powell, Reverend Jessie Jackson, Jackie Joyner Kersee and 
a host of other VIPs.

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ESLARP TECHNOLOGY PRESENTED AT URISA CONFERENCE, CHICAGO

Deanna Koenigs presented ESLARP's geographic data collection techniques 
as well as EGRETS. Raja Shankar and Sarah Duffy extended the capabilities 
of the Project's on-line Urban System's Model (USM) to enable users to 
gain a sense of how impacts generated by proposed development projects 
would be distributed throughout the St. Louis metropolitan area.  A paper 
on the model and posters illustrating it's capabilities were presented by 
Sarah Duffy and Edgar Flagg at the URISA meeting in Chicago in August. 
The USM was also presented at CUPUM in Venice in September.

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FALL 1999 ESLARP COURSES

  LA341 Land Resource Evaluation

This course looks at different ways of evaluating the land, problems 
that arise when attempting to evaluate land, and policies that may be 
developed to address those problems.

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  ARCH371 Your Place, My Place, Their Place: A Housing Environments Studio

An architectural design studio with an emphasis on designing housing 
environments of different types for different users. The Emerson Park 
Development Corporation, as part of the Neighborhood Faith-Based Housing 
Program, requests that this design studio develops 10 homes which will be 
built beginning in July of 2000. EPDC will construct the ten homes next 
summer for low to very low income families.

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ILLINOIS BOTTOMLAND EXPLORER (IBEX) RELEASED

Explore the online history of East St. Louis. View an unpublished guidebook 
to the city prepared by the Federal Writers Project in 1936, search for
information by timeline, location or the archives.

	../ibex/
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EAST ST. LOUIS PHOENIX WEBSITE

The Phoenix website was developed with the intent of exhibiting some 
of the accomplishments and contributions that people from East St. Louis 
have made to society. Including such famous people as: Katherine Dunham,
Miles Davis and Jackie Joyner Kersee, just to name a few. 
 
	../ibex/phoenix/
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NEW VERSION OF EGRETS RELEASED

ESLARP launched a new version of its online guide to geographic information
about East St. Louis. Visit EGRETS to explore East St. Louis, search for maps,
use the interactive map studio, and download data files. 

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GOOD-BYE! 

We would like to wish a warm good bye to the following ESLARPians:

- Ken Reardon is currently on sabbatical at Cornell University but will be
back with us in 2000.
- Tom Shields has moved on to become the Director of Volunteer Programs at UIUC.
- Abhijeet Chavan is currently unemployed and living on the beach in Long
Beach, California.
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HELLO

Welcome the following new additions and changes to ESLARP!

- Vicki Eddings has stepped in as the Project Administrative Coordinator. You
can contact her at (217)265-0202 or by email at veddings@uiuc.edu
- Professor Bob Selby is the new Chair of the ESLARP Executive Committee.
- Deanna Koenigs has taken on some of the challenges left by Abhijeet's
departure. She is now the GIS/Web Coordinator for ESLARP.
- Yong Wook Kim has taken on some of the other challenges left by Abhijeet's
departure and is now the system administrator for ESLARP.
- Natasha Knight and Nidhi Tomar are new ESLARP Research Assitants.