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1. 1. www.planningreports.com

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   Published on: 1/1/1998   Last Visited: 3/19/2007

   Access Management: An Overview & Guide for Roadway Corridors (co-authored with Julie Campoli) PCJ #29, Winter 1998

2. 2. www.sevendaysvt.com

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   Last Visited: 3/29/2007

   Book review: Visualizing Density by Julie Campoli and Alex S. MacLean
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   Book review: Visualizing Density by Julie Campoli and Alex S. MacLean
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   A new book co-authored by Julie Campoli, a Burlington-based landscape architect and site planner, has some answers - or at least guidelines.
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   Campoli and MacLean help their readers - whether city planners or developers, architects or students, or simply curious citizens - do just as the title suggests: See what density, good and bad, looks like.
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   "We started this project because we found people were talking a lot about density but without actual visual images," Campoli says in an interview, adding that opponents often think density means "these terrible housing projects . . . It's all about trying to avoid making the mistakes."
   
   Visualizing Density emerged from a five-year collaboration that has also resulted in a classroom course and a resource-rich website for the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As an instructor for the institute and principal of Burlington's Terra Firma Urban Design, Campoli gives lectures around the country on sprawl, density, smart growth and site planning. She is also a former member of Burlington's Development Review Board. In 2001, Campoli penned Above and Beyond with Elizabeth Humstone, then executive director of the Vermont Forum on Sprawl; in that book, the authors used MacLean's aerial photos to examine how and why landscapes change over time.
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   Campoli addresses the import of this growth in an early passage:
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   Alongside the excessive use of dwindling fossil fuels, Campoli asks us to consider that "low-density development leads to higher public and private development costs as well" - such as "sewer, water, roads, electric and other infrastructure elements." Bigger picture: Consider the declining water table and the degradation of soil and air.
   
   While thoughtless growth has resulted in a somewhat grim prospect for human habitation in the U.S., Campoli and MacLean offer some reasons for optimism, as well:
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   And denser urban areas are actually more environmentally friendly than sprawling ones by "most significant measures," Campoli writes. "City dwellers use fewer energy resources and generate less pollution than their suburban and rural neighbors. People drive less where densities are high, streets are interconnected, and jobs are interspersed with housing."
   
   So why do people tend to hate or fear the idea of density? Campoli concedes that there have been examples of bad dense development, but she argues that most opposition is based on misconceptions - and on failure to grasp what good density can and should look like. One impression she feels people need to overcome is that density means crowding. In fact, "places can be very dense, but may not be perceived as overcrowded if they are designed to comfortably accommodate many people," Campoli writes.
   
   She identifies two other, possibly more recalcitrant, obstacles to smart growth. One is the need for regional - not just town or city - planning; the other is the need for what Campoli calls "a major shift in our thinking about how we get around." That is, transportation planning. In New England, Campoli says, a strong tradition of local control creates situations where adjacent towns may not talk to each other - and may even compete for business and residential growth. "We, on the Development Review Board, talked about how we could get together with South Burlington and other communities, but there was never time for that," she laments. "It's a dysfunctional system."
   
   For Campoli, good density starts with good design. And that, she stresses, cannot be regulated. "What makes wonderful design happen is really talented architects," she suggests. "Especially with density, you have to design buildings very well, and have good site design . . . When architects have been allowed to build good buildings and developers have supported them, that's the seed," Campoli concludes.
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   Visualizing Density by Julie Campoli & Alex S. MacLean, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 152 pages. $39.95.

3. 3. PCJ Article: "Access Management" by Elizabeth Humstone & Julie Campoli

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   Published on: 2/6/2002   Last Visited: 2/6/2002

   Julie Campoli is a landscape architect and principal of Urban Design & Landscape Architecture, based in Burlington, Vermont. Campoli is also a member of the Burlington Public Works Commission. You can contact her at: campoli@together.net
   
   Planning Policies That Assist Access Management
   
   1. Focus development in villages, urban centers or other growth centers.
   
   2. Provide for mixed uses and higher densities than surrounding areas in these growth centers.