Can a wider highway save livelihoods?

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Jan 13

Jim Robbins wrote an article that appeared in the New York Times on December 17, 2006, reporting on efforts to widen US Highway 2 in northern Montana (see above link to PDF file of his article, "Hoping a Wider Highway Can Save Their Livelihoods") Frank Popper, a professor of geography at Rutgers University, has studied the depopulating Great Plains and says that trying to widen this highway " . . . smacks of desperation. . ." Dr. Popper thinks we should restore the native prairie instead of making major investments in roads where there is no demand. He may have the right idea.

H. Pike Oliver

H. Pike Oliver focuses on master-planned communities. He is co-author of Transforming the Irvine Ranch: Joan Irvine, William Pereira, Ray Watson, and THE BIG PLAN, published by Routledge in 2022.

Early in his career, Pike worked for public agencies, including the California Governor's Office of Planning and Research, where he was a principal contributor to An Urban Strategy for California. For the next three decades, he was involved in master-planned development on the Irvine Ranch in Southern California, as well as other properties in western North America and abroad.

Beginning in 2009, Pike taught real estate development at Cornell University and directed the undergraduate program in Urban and Regional Studies. He relocated to Seattle in 2013 and, from 2016 to 2020, served as a lecturer in the Runstad Department of Real Estate at the University of Washington, where he also served as its chair.

Pike graduated from San Francisco State University's urban studies and planning program and received a master's degree in urban planning from UCLA. He is a member of the American Planning Association and the Urban Land Institute and a founder and emeritus member of the California Planning Roundtable.

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