CWC Research Publications

Creating Whole Communities research findings and recommendations are catalogued into two broad categories: Neighborhood Innovations and Public Policy.

Neighborhood Innovations

Research that strengthens the field’s understanding of whole communities and identifies promising strategies in neighborhood revitalization.

• Understanding the Role of Municipal Governance in Stabilizing Inner-Ring Suburbs in St. Louis By Napoleon Williams III, University of Missouri - St. Louis. 
  
  

• Neighborhood Differences in Enforcement Activity in the City of St. Louis from 2002 – 2017: An Exploration of Neighborhood Arrest Trends and the Consequences of Concentrated Enforcement on Communities & Trends in Arrests & Crime by Neighborhood from 2002 - 2018 (Supplemental Graphs) By Lee Ann Slocum, Dale Dan-Irabor, & Claire Greene, University of Missouri - St. Louis. 

• Citizens Responses to Gunfire in St. Louis by Beth M. Huebner & Theodore S. Lentz, University of Missouri – St. Louis & Joseph A. Schafer, Saint Louis University. 
  
  

• African Immigrant Perceptions of Non-Profit Service Providers in the St. Louis Metropolitan Region by Dr. Adriano Udani, University of Missouri St. Louis. 

• The Missouri Place Stories Project: Shaw and Botanical Heights by Andrew Hurley and Maris Gillette, University of Missouri–St Louis. 

• Rebound Neighborhoods in Older Industrial Cities: The Story of St. Louis by Hank Webber, Washington University in St. Louis; and Todd Swanstrom, University of Missouri–St Louis. 

• Exploring Gentrification: Finding a Path to Inclusive Development by Todd Swanstrom, Karl Guenther, and Nathan Theus (UMSL).

  • What People Talk About When They Talk About Gentrification (Full Report)

• Notes from the Field: The Saint Louis Bosnian Family and Youth Study by Dr. Florian Sichling (UMSL) and Dr. Ajlina Karamehic-Muratovic (SLU). 

Public Policy

Research that results in policy recommendations that strengthen the capacity of decision makers in government, philanthropy, business, and nonprofit sectors to create whole communities. Creating Whole Communities encourages the sharing of research that fosters the development of strong, healthy communities. If you have research you would like to share, please contact Claire Rippel (wolffca@missouri.edu) for inclusion of your information on our website.

• Tower Grove Neighborhoods: A Case Study of the Consolidation of Three Community Development Corporations by Karl Guenther, University of Missouri-St. Louis, Todd Swanstrom, University of Missouri–St Louis, and Rachel Hanks, University of Missouri-St. Louis. 

• Thinking about Policy Responses to Neighborhood Change: Framing a Discussion by Todd Swanstrom, University of Missouri-St. Louis. 

• Equity Planning in a Fragmented Suburban Setting: The Case of St. Louis by Todd Swanstrom, University of Missouri-St. Louis.