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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.
In her "By Design" column in the June 1, 2009, issue of the New York Times, Allison Arieff (editor at large for Sunset Magazine and former editor-in-chief for Dwell Magazine) reported on her experience as a juror for the inaugural Future Image of Architecture Competition sponsored by the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC). Go to http://arieff.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/01/rethinking-the-mall/?8ty&emc=ty to see Arieff's review of the submittals and comments on what she saw at the ICSC conference in Las Vegas in May 2009.
