Rollin Stanley, St. Louis City Development Agencies Director of Planning & Urban Design, will give an update of the city’s development efforts. He will address the obstacles and successes in revitalization, along with future directions.

This public session is hosted by the League of Women Voters on Saturday, May 21, 2005 at 10:30 a.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church, 600 N. Euclid, 63108, (314/361-4655) in the Central West End near the corner of Euclid & Washington, one block east of Kingshighway, one block south of Delmar.

For information, call 314/961-6869.

4th annual Creating Livable Communities Symposium: Linking Public History and Community Revitalization
May 21, 2005, UM – St. Louis

This year’s Creating Livable Communities Symposium is a one-day program focusing on history and place as tools for community building. Twelve concurrent sessions and workshops will bring the experience of educators, community organizers, preservationists, trailblazers, oral historians, and many more on the question of how we can use public history to revitalize our towns and cities.

A few of things that are of particular interest to neighborhoods: a session on planning a great house tour (yes, Marti will be speaking); a workshop on creating and capitalizing on historic districts; and a few different things related to promoting heritage tourism and the economic development potential of historic areas. Particularly cool, I think, is our plenary speaker Marci Reaven of Place Matters (www.placematters.net), who will discuss meaningful public history processes that can empower citizens and inspire communities.

For more information, including a schedule of speakers, check out the Symposium website