Visualizing Density in New Hampshire Awards Event featuring guest speaker Julie Campoli, co-author of Visualizing Density

Join us on Wednesday, June 26th at 1 PM at Red River Theatres in Concord, NH for our Visualizing Density in New Hampshire Awards Event. The event is free of charge but you must register to attend. RSVP by June 21.

This event is co-sponsored by NNECAPA. Approved for 1.0 AICP CM credits

To help inform and inspire towns, developers and others as they grapple with this idea of density, New Hampshire Housing and Plan NH (as part of their Vibrant Villages NH initiative) have been working with partners in historic preservation, professional planners and NH Planners Association, Homebuilders and Remodelers Association of NH, American Institute of Architects-NH and Regional Planning Commissions to help gather good examples of residential and mixed-use density from throughout New Hampshire. To find out more about this click here.

To maintain an element of fun in this effort, at our Visualizing Density in New Hampshire Awards Event we will recognize outstanding examples of density in New Hampshire as well as acknowledge all entries submitted.

Julie Campoli will be our keynote speaker for this event. Julie is an urban designer and author who writes about urban form and the changing landscape. She combines a planner’s perspective with a designer’s sensibility to illustrate the built environment and the processes that shape it. She is the author of Made for Walking: Density and Neighborhood Form, and co-author of Visualizing Density, and Above and Beyond: Visualizing Change in Small Towns and Rural Areas.

Julie has developed innovative graphic techniques to help people understand the relationship between design concepts and actual urban environments. Her most recent book, Made for Walking, uses hundreds of photographs, montages, maps and diagrams of North American neighborhoods to illustrate the types of urban form that make sustainable transportation possible. She conducts workshops and lectures throughout the country on issues of smart growth, urban design, and density.

Her Burlington, VT-based design practice, Terra Firma Urban Design, specialized in site planning for affordable housing, emphasizing the infilling of existing neighborhoods. As a consultant to Vermont non-profits, state agencies, and municipalities, she helped steer development toward a more efficient and contextual pattern. More recently, her practice has focused on how river systems interact with human settlements and building flood resiliency in riverside downtowns. Julie holds a B.A. from Middlebury College, an MLA from Cornell University, and was a 2009-10 Loeb Fellow at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.

AGENDA

12:30 PM: REGISTRATION

1 PM:"Made for Walking: A Density Primer for Small Cities and Villages" with Julie Campoli

How can New Hampshire towns become more livable while reaping environmental, social, economic and health benefits? Julie Campoli, author of Visualizing Density and Made for Walking will discuss how density and proximity create high value places that can thrive in an age of rising energy prices, economic uncertainty, and changing demographics. Walking and biking offer affordable, reliable and healthy transportation options, but building walkable communities will require more than building sidewalks. It will demand a fundamental shift in land use patterns and attention to the details of urban design.

2 PM: Visualizing Density Awards Recognition

3 PM: Reception in lobby. Refresments will be served. Cash bar.

If you bring any of Julie's books she will be glad to autograph them! No books will be sold at the event.