Appendix

Sources of data

1.Persons

Members of Faculty
  • Prof. V. George (Dept. of Urban and Regional Planning)
  • Prof. B. Orland (Dept. of Landscape Architecture)

Staff Members (based at UIUC)
  • Mr. A. Chavan (Visiting Research Associate & Webmaster)
  • Ms. D. Koenigs (Research Assistant)

Staff Members (based at East St. Louis)
  • Mr. J. Jones (Co-ordinator of ESL-CAN)
  • Ms. P. Nolan (Community Planner at NTAC)
  • Mr. D. Smith (Director of NTAC)

Resident of East St. Louis
  • Rev. H. Watson (Mt. Sinai Baptist Church)

Questionnaires were administered and responses were received over electronic mail. Email was also used sporadically to gather information from some of the faculty and staff members (at UIUC and ESL), and fill in gaps in understanding.

2.Documents (print and electronic)

* ESLARP Annual Report/Brochures

* NTAC Newsletter " Neighborhood News" Vol.1 (3)

* "Request for Assistance" Forms

*Putting neighborhoods on-line; putting academics in touch: The urban university and neighborhood network by Stoecker, R. (1996)
http://uac.rdp.utoledo.edu/docs/uunn/cdsppr.htm

*Information footpaths: Grassroots technology for local economic development by Heikkila, E. & Clapp, T. (1997)
http://www.esri.com/library/userconf/proc97/proc97/abstract/a194.htm

* ESLARP website

* Feedback forms (viewers electronic responses to the ESLARP and EGRETS website)

3.References

Bruce, B. C. (1993). Innovation and social change. In B. Bruce, J. K. Peyton, & T. Batson (Eds.),Network-based classrooms: Promises and realities (pp. 9-32). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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