Citizen Action for Community Revitalization

Ken Reardon joined the Cornell faculty as an associate professor with tenure after leaving the Urban and Regional Planning Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. For his role there in establishing and directing the university's highly-regarded East St. Louis Action Research Project, he was awarded the 2000 American Institute of Certified Planners President's Award. His research interests focus on community-based planning in severely distressed urban neighborhoods, alternative approaches to community development, urban social movements, and municipal government reform. The title of his lecture is "Citizen Action for Community Revitalization: America's Quiet Revolution."