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 master-planned new town during the 1960s and 70s. Published by Routledge of the Taylor & Francis Group, the book is the first of a Real Estate Thought Leadership Collection offered by the American Real Estate Society.