About the Book

About the Author

Charles Campion Partner at JTP; Academician at Academy of Urbanism; Built Environment Expert for Design Council.  

Charles is JTP’s Partner for participatory co-design processes with communities and stakeholders from all backgrounds and sectors. For over 20 years he has led and participated in numerous Charrette processes in the UK and worldwide. These have been for residential-led developments of various scales including Garden Villages, heritage-led regeneration, urban renaissance and environmental projects. In 2019 Charles was asked to lead a Charrette to create a Vision for Liskeard Cattle Market as part of the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) exemplar Charrette programme. In 2015 JTP won the BDonline Architect of the Year Award for Masterplanning and Public Realm in recognition of their Collaborative Placemaking work across a diverse range of projects.

Reviews

“What a magnificent book! What a powerful message!! In every way it deserves a wide-ranging readership. You can only imagine how privileged I have been to have been there with Jules Gregory in the early days of this great urban design and democratic initiative. I am deeply impressed by the case studies published, many of them clearly giving new hope and life to distressed communities.”
– David Lewis FAIA, Founder of Urban Design Associates

“Charles Campion’s book 20/20 Visions, Collaborative and Placemaking not only includes the Santa Fe Railyard but also 19 other case studies that used democratic design principles as the basis for successful design in community. This is a critical read and timely exposition given the climate and housing challenges every town and city faces, no matter the size. Here in Santa Fe we have an excellent example of democratic design. We need to use the wisdom gained in our community for the issues facing us today using collaborative planning and charrettes. Collaboration is critical is we move forward.”
– Gayla Bechtol, AIA, Santa Fe

“We are living in exciting times – self build, community land trusts, asset transfers, edible landscapes. Communities have power, when, as now, the public purse has receded the power of people grows. This book underlines the principles of trust, transparency and participation. We are not all individually blessed with 20/20 vision, but it’s something we would all wish for as communities. The days of ego architecture are gone, bravo for the collaborative approach. Read this book and excercise those participatory muscles.”
– Mary Clear MBE, Community activist & co-founder Incredible Edible

“20/20 Visions makes an important contribution to the conversation about charrette processes and their value to urban regeneration. The case studies in this volume provide an indispensable guide that demonstrates how our cities can apply democratic approaches to remake themselves. It is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the key tools to achieve urban success in the 21st century.”
– Joel Mills, Senior Director, Center for Communities by Design, The American Institute of Architects

“It is both readable and technical, with great visual context. It finds, in the short attention span era, a good balance between brevity and delivering meaningful content – through the use of exemplars, accompanying narrative, themes, analysis and lessons learned. A complex endeavour woven together into a compact, legible and attractive product.”
– Kobus Mentz, Urbanismplus, Auckland, New Zealand