Keep Off The Lawn

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Written By H. Pike Oliver

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The UCLA Magazine of July 2007 contains an article entitled, “Keep Off the Lawn." The article summarizes UCLA Center on the Everyday Lives of Families research on the living habits of home owning families in Southern California.

The study found that yards were often well maintained but rarely used. This raises interesting questions. For example, are people too busy doing other things or are they spending so much time working to pay for the house with the nice yard that they don't have time to actually enjoy it?

Click on the link to see a PDF file of the article.   Keep Off The Lawn

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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