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Julie Campoli Full-time 2009-2010 Photo by Doug Cogger
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Julie Campoli is an author, landscape architect, and principal of Terra Firma Urban Design, based in Burlington, Vermont. Her work focuses on analyzing urban form and designing compact and sustainable alternatives to sprawl. She combines research, writing, and teaching to help people understand the built environment and the development processes that shape it. As a consultant to Vermont state agencies, municipalities, and non-profits, she has helped steer development toward a more efficient and contextual pattern. A recent focus of her design practice has been site planning for affordable housing, emphasizing the infilling of town centers with traditional village patterns in the creation of new neighborhoods. In her books, Above and Beyond, and Visualizing Density, Ms. Campoli employs a planner’s perspective to explore how places emerge and function, and a designer’s sensibility to translate that knowledge into visual information. She has developed innovative techniques to help people see the relationship between design concepts and actual urban environments, and she applies them in workshops and lectures throughout the country. Recognized by Choice Magazine and PLANetizen web site as one of the top ten books of 2007, Visualizing Density and its accompanying Density Catalog has been widely used by design professionals and public officials to address public concerns about dense infill development. As a Loeb Fellow, Julie plans to explore how greater density might be combined with local renewable energy and food production to create a more sustainable urban infrastructure. She will investigate the physical arrangements and urban forms that can lower greenhouse gas emissions and achieve greater energy and food self-sufficiency.
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