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Overview

A program of sustained engagement with distressed urban areas through service learning and action research.

Together with residents and community organizations in severely distressed areas, faculty and students from across the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign work on highly tangible and visible projects that address immediate and long-term needs.

Since 1990, this program of mutual learning and assistance has been an important part of the growing neighborhood revitalization movement in East St. Louis, Illinois and more recently four adjacent communities: Alorton, Brooklyn, Centreville, and Washington Park. Aided by the University’s instructional, research, and public service resources, ESLARP is producing results in communities where residents are mobilizing to address pressing social, economic, and environmental problems.

• 1: Origins
• 2: Participatory Planning Philosophy
• 3: Completed Works: Building Neighborhood Organizations
• 4: Completed Works: Youth Build
• 5: Completed Works: Affordable Housing
• 6: Completed Works: Light Rail
• 7: Early Examples of Completed Work: Illinois Ave. Playground
• 8: Early Examples of Completed Work: Farmer's Market
• 9: Mutual Benefits of Community Revitalization : ESLARP Mission
• 10: ESLARP Alumni, etc.
• 11: Links and Contact Information

Print the ESLARP Brochure (pdf) (will open in Adobe Acrobat)

Posters

(All links below are PDF files that have file sizes ranging from 100Kb to 300Kb)

• Overview
• Participatory Approach
• WIPNO - I
• WIPNO - II
• Emerson Park
• Neighborhood-based Family Housing Program
• Computers and Community Development
• Geographic Information Systems
• EGRETS
• Neighborhood Condition Survey
• Urban Systems Modeling
• Neighborhood Technical Assistance Center
• Katherine Dunham Dynamic Museum
• Partners and Heroes

Last modified: 20 March 2002, Deanna Koenigs

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