About H. Pike Oliver, FAICP

H. Pike Oliver focuses on planning and developing master-planned communities. He is co-author with C. Michael Stockstill of Transforming the Irvine Ranch: Joan Irvine, William Pereira, Ray Watson, and THE BIG PLAN, published by Routledge in 2022, and The Irvine Ranch: Fulfilling the Vision, 1977-2025, to be published by Routledge in June 2026.

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 and 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, was 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.

Since 2018, Pike has curated the ARES Urbanexus Update, a periodic roundup of news and articles on metropolitan planning, real estate investment, and development circulated by the American Real Estate Society.

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