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."