Federal urban and metropolitan agenda and a crashing teleprompter

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Written By H. Pike Oliver

METRO - 2009-07-13 - White house press release titleOn July 13, 2009, President Obama spoke at a gathering of folks interested in urban and metropolitan policy to, as described in the White House Press Office release, " .  .  . address the next steps in development of an urban and metropolitan agenda."  The full text of the release is available at http://bit.ly/TWV5Q .  The question now is whether this event will be rembered as a beginning of substantive work on addressing urban and metropolitan policy or as the event during which a teleprompter fell apart while President Obama was speaking.  For a video of the telpepromter crash see  http://bit.ly/lu1zx .

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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