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

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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