Partnership for Strong Communities - Campoli Offers Ideas, Perspective on "Visualizing Density”

Campoli Offers Ideas, Perspective on "Visualizing Density”

Julie Campoli

Julie Campoli, the landscape architect and planner who literally wrote the book on higher density, sustainable development in her “Visualizing Density” collaboration with Alex McClean, showed more than 200 planners, builders, developers, architects, designers and municipal officials on May 14th & 15th that density isn’t the issue, that crowding was.

Campoli in Bridgeport

Campoli came to Connecticut for two reasons: to offer two workshops sponsored by a host of housing and community organizations, and to assist the member towns and officials of the Capital Region Council of Governments develop a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grant designed to encourage planning of affordable and mixed-income housing in responsible growth locations tied to transportation, energy efficiency and conservation.

Using hundreds of slides and an interactive workshop, Campoli showed that density, itself, is rarely a problem; that smart design, landscaping, detail and amenities can make density attractive and, more important, fit its surroundings.

Visualizing Density in Hartford

The following materials from the workshop are available:

More of Campoli's work on Visualizing Density can be found on the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy website. Other materials on the benefits of density can be found here.

Those who participated in Campoli’s presentations in Bridgeport and Hartford may email David Fink, policy director of the Partnership for Strong Communities, david@ctpartnershiphousing.com to obtain copies of her materials.

To order copies of Campoli's book on “Visualizing Density,” just click here.

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