Web Stories
Campus plan website updated
Posted January 18, 2007; 06:28 p.m.
The website created for the University's campus planning effort has
been updated with all of the comprehensive information presented at
last fall's open forum for the campus and local communities.
Viewers can now go to www.campusplan.princeton.edu
and see the visuals and read the documentation that was presented at
the Nov. 8 event in the Chancellor Green Rotunda. As work progresses,
additional information will be posted on the site.
The University is midway through a two-year effort to create a
comprehensive plan for the campus that will guide development over the
next 10 years and beyond. The open forum -- and now the website --
provide an opportunity for the planning team to make available more
detailed information on the planning effort as well as to learn more
about issues that matter to the University and local communities.
Feedback is being sought through an e-mail link on the "continuing dialogue" portion of the site.
The website incorporates and expands on the materials presented at the
open forum. It includes a timeline describing the development of the
campus since it was established in Princeton in 1756, along with maps
and images. Like the open forum, it is organized by themes, ranging
from landscaping and sustainability to parking and transportation, and
by the various campus neighborhoods that are part of the plan.
The planning effort is being led by the award-winning firm of Beyer
Blinder Belle Architects & Planners LLP. Working with a team of
seven other planning and design firms specializing in transportation
engineering, landscape design, storm water management, parking and
wayfinding, BBB is taking a fresh look at the 400-acre campus,
providing a framework for campus growth that seeks to strengthen and
reintroduce a landscape network throughout the campus while improving
traffic, parking and pedestrian circulation between the campus and
surrounding neighborhoods.
The initiative follows an intensive series of internal discussions with
senior administrators, faculty, architects and other key stakeholders
through which the University has developed a set of overarching
principles for campus planning and development: maintain a
pedestrian-oriented campus; preserve the park-like character of the
campus; maintain campus "neighborhoods" while promoting a sense of
community; develop in an environmentally responsible manner; and
sustain strong community relations.