Matthew G. Lasner is a historian of the built environment who writes about housing, community planning, and urban (and suburban) form, with a focus on the architecture, culture, and politics of multifamily housing in the United States.

He is author of the award-winning High Life: Condo Living in the Suburban Century, a history of co-op and condominium housing in New York, Washington, Chicago, Miami, and Los Angeles; co-editor of Affordable Housing in New York: The People, Places, and Policies That Transformed a City; and a founding editor of PLATFORM.

His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Nation, Places, Journal of Urban History, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, and Buildings & Landscapes.

He earned his PhD at Harvard and has taught at University of California, Berkeley; California College of the Arts (CCA); Hunter College-CUNY; and Georgia State University.