Plaster and Roofing in Lakewood California (1950)

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Written By H. Pike Oliver

Plaster and Roofing, Lakewood, California (1950) is the title of this photograph and the photographer was William A. Garnett who made a gelatin silver print (19.5 x 24.3 cm.) It is on exhibit at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles as part of the Pacific Standard Time collaboration amongst 60 Southern California museums and cultural institutions. Approximately 17,500 single-family houses were built in Lakewood, California, in just a few years during the early 1950s housing boom that followed World War II.  The community is about 20 miles south of downtown Los Angeles.  For some history, visit this page at the Los Angeles County Public Library website.

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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