Susan Christopherson (1947-2016)

Cornell University economic geographer and regional development scholar Susan Christopherson died on December 14, 2016. At the time of her death, she was chair of the Department of City and Regional Planning (CRP) in the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning (AAP.) She joined the CRP faculty in 1987 and became first female full professor and chair of the department.  I had the opportunity to know and work with this remarkable woman while I was at Cornell from 2009 to 2013. An obituary is posted on the AAP website.

Susan Christopherson (1947-2016)

Susan Christopherson (1947-2016)

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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