Managing Shrinkage in Flint, Michigan

While the attention of urban planners often focuses on growth management, a few find themselves addressing shrinkage. For some insignt on this, see Wayne Senville's post of June 22, 2009 at his CircleTheUSA blog (http://www.circletheusa.com/2009/06/flint1.html).  He recently interviewed the staff of the Genesee County Land Bank (http://www.thelandbank.org/) in Flint, MI, where population fell from 195,000 in 1970 to an estimated 117,000 in 2006.  In this city, nearly a third of all residential parcels are abandoned.

METRO - 2009-06-22 - Land Bank Residentail Vacant Lots in Flint, MI

H. Pike Oliver

Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, H. Pike Oliver has worked on real estate development strategies and master-planned communities since the early 1970s, including nearly eight years at the Irvine Company. He resided in the City of Irvine for five years in the 1980s and nine years in the 1990s.

As the founder and sole proprietor of URBANEXUS, Oliver works on advancing equitable and sustainable real estate development and natural lands management. He is also an affiliate instructor at the Runstad Department of Real Estate at the University of Washington.

Early in his career, Oliver 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. Prior to relocating to Seattle in 2013, Oliver taught real estate development at Cornell University and directed the undergraduate program in urban and regional studies. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute, the American Planning Association and a founder and emeritus member of the California Planning Roundtable.

Oliver is a graduate of the urban studies and planning program at San Francisco State University and earned a master’s degree in urban planning at UCLA.

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