THE BIG PLAN books

Book #2 about the Irvine Ranch in SoCal is available. This completes the story of how 93k acres now houses ~500k residents and a Tier I research university — all guided by a big plan over 65 years with 57.5k acres preserved as open space. thebigplanbooks.com

Transforming the Irvine Ranch: Joan Irvine, William Pereira, Ray Watson, and THE BIG PLAN #IrvineRanch, #OrangeCounty, #RealEstate #UrbanPlanning, #MasterPlannedCommunities youtube.com/watch?v=TB9udPyT…

In-Person/Online book talk on Feb 2, 2023, at 1 PM PST. H. Pike Oliver and C. Michael Stockstill, authors of Transforming the Irvine Ranch, offer an insider's account of the history of UCI and its surrounding community. spaces.lib.uci.edu/event/101…

On 12/5/1960, the Long Beach Independent newspaper published an article about the planning for development of the 93k-ac Irvine Ranch in SoCal. urbanexus.com/blog/2023/1/14…

This is a 1965 Irvine Company advertisement. Learn how the question was answered by reading Transforming the Irvine Ranch: Joan Irvine, William Pereira, Ray Watson, and THE BIG PLAN (Routledge: 2022), available on Amazon. Learn more at thebigplanbook.com/

New book explores transformation of Irvine Ranch stunewsnewport.com/index.php…

Visited with Monica Pereira, daughter of William Pereira and presented her with a copy of Transforming the Irvine Ranch: Joan Irvine, William Pereira and THE BIG PLAN (thebigplanbook.com)

"Transforming the Irvine Ranch: THE BIG PLAN" book endorsement from @joelkotkin

Documenting a key part of Orange County, CA history--the transformation of the Irvine Ranch from agricultural empire into a vast master-planned community latimes.com/socal/daily-pilo…

Poster boards for THE BIG PLAN book presentation in place at the conference of the California Chapter of the American Planning Association in Anaheim, CA

Coauthors Mike Stockstill and Pike Oliver look forward to presenting a lecture based on THE BIG PLAN book at the conference of the California Chapter of the American Planning Association on October 2, 2022, in Anaheim, CA. Learn more about the book at thebigplanbook.com/

The top half of the back page of the paperback version of THE BIG PLAN book coauthored by Pike Oliver and Mike Stockstill and published by @ARESconference and @routledgebooks tells a lot about it. thebigplanbook.com

Transforming the Irvine Ranch: Joan Irvine, Wm Pereira, Ray Watson, and THE BIG PLAN is the first @ARES Thought Leadership Collection publication. It tells how 93k acres in Southern California became a vast master-planned real estate development. thebigplanbook.com/

We are off to a strong start on Amazon, number one in new releases in Real Estate. Thanks to everyone who has purchased. Learn more/order at thebigplanbook.com

Amazon lists THE BIG PLAN BOOK as the best seller in the civil engineering category besting titles such as “Parametric Modeling with Autodesk Fusion” Learn more/order at thebigplanbook.com

Coauthor H. Pike Oliver signs THE BIG PLAN book about the transformation of the Irvine Ranch from an agricultural empire into a university-anchored new town. Learn more/order at thebigplanbook.com #urbanplanning #communitydevelopment #realestateinvestment #Irvine

The e-Book version is on the left and the Kindle is on the right. The graphics render a bit larger in the e-Book version. But both digital versions look good. The e-Book offers an audio feature, which is not included in the Kindle version. thebigplanbook.com

TRANSFORMING THE IRVINE RANCH: Joan Irvine, William Pereira, Ray Watson, and THE BIG PLAN examines the rapid transformation of a 93,000-acre Southern California agricultural empire into a university-anchored new town during the 1960s and 70s. thebigplanbook.com

Transforming the Irvine Ranch: Joan Irvine, William Pereira, Ray Watson, and THE BIG PLAN publishes today. The book tells about transforming the vast Irvine Ranch from an agricultural empire into a new-town. thebigplanbook.com/ via @routledgebooks and @ARESconference