A New Year's Resolution

Jan 2

I have heard that if you announce a resolution, there is a greater chance that you will stick with it. So, please bear with this attempt at exercising that principle.

One of my resolutions for 2016, is to return to using the blogging feature of my website and to post fewer links to articles via Twitter. My rationale is that if I think an article warrants attention, I ought to make at least a brief statement on why I think that is the case. My hope is that the discipline of doing this will cause me to read and reflect more carefully.

I will continue to post photographs that I take via Instagram, Twitter and Facebook, because I enjoy sharing them as widely as possible. But my Facebook friends, many of who are not interested in land use and real estate, will no longer see postings on those topics.

I hope my Twitter friend @PierreAGERON will understand that while I will no longer repost most of his Twitter posts, I still want to see them. When I have something to pay about one of the articles that he posts, I will do so via this blog.

Happy New Year!

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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