Matthew Gordon Lasner

Matthew Gordon Lasner is associate professor of urban studies and planning at Hunter College, CUNY, where he teaches courses on U.S. and global urbanism, housing, and the built environment. His first book, High Life: Condo Living in the Suburban Century (2012), examines owner-occupied multifamily housing (co-ops and condominiums; market-rate and affordable) in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, and Washington, DC, between the 1880s and 1980s. It was awarded the 2013 Cummings Prize by the Vernacular Architecture Forum. His writing on housing, planning, and design has appeared in many scholarly journals as well as in the New York Times, exhibition catalogues, encyclopedias, and edited volumes. He earned his PhD at Harvard, MS from the London School of Economics, and BA from Columbia.