Healthy places

Dec 11

Public health professionals are concluding that our metropolitan environment influences our physical and mental health. A blog posting of December 8, 2016, went so far as to state that, " . . . One number stands above all others as the best indicator of good health. It's not your blood pressure, cholesterol level, average daily calories, or even the age at which your grandparents die. It's your zip code." And the website of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has a feature where you can type in your zip code to see data on average life expectancy. Picking up on this idea, the folks at Project for Public Spaces have prepared a report on "The Case for Healthy Placemaking: Improving Health Outcomes through Placemaking."

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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