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

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.

https://urbanexus.com

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