Matthew Gordon Lasner
Biographic Data
| ID | 4225719 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Gordon Lasner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew Gordon |
| FAMILY NAME | Lasner |
| SIGNATURE | LASNER M G |
| AFFILIATIONS | independent scholar |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Garden Apartments
Siobhan Moroney, Chicagoland Dream Houses
In Levittown's Shadow
Segregation by Design
This article explores the ways in which architecture, landscape design, and site planning helped maintain racial segregation in housing in Atlanta, Georgia, between the 1960s and 1990s. Under Jim Crow, apartment complexes in Atlanta hewed to national design norms. By the late 1960s, however, racial tension, rioting, and passage of the Fair Housing Act led to proliferation of the architecture of enclosure: design that helped code communities as wh…
The Lofts of SoHo
Social scientists who study cities have sparred since the 1980s over the causes (and, more recently, effects) of the revalorization of city-center districts. Geographers, especially Marxists such as the late Neil Smith, hypothesized that after decades of racialized incentives to disinvestment there emerged a “rent gap” between current and potential values. The profit motive, in other words, catalyzed by government duplicity, lured “pioneer” devel…
Abraham Kazan
Affordable Housing in New York
Little White Houses
Model Miami
Apartment
The Lofts of SoHo
Social scientists who study cities have sparred since the 1980s over the causes (and, more recently, effects) of the revalorization of city-center districts. Geographers, especially Marxists such as the late Neil Smith, hypothesized that after decades of racialized incentives to disinvestment there emerged a “rent gap” between current and potential values. The profit motive, in other words, catalyzed by government duplicity, lured “pioneer” devel…
Apartment
Model Miami
Little White Houses
Abraham Kazan
Affordable Housing in New York
The Lofts of SoHo
Social scientists who study cities have sparred since the 1980s over the causes (and, more recently, effects) of the revalorization of city-center districts. Geographers, especially Marxists such as the late Neil Smith, hypothesized that after decades of racialized incentives to disinvestment there emerged a “rent gap” between current and potential values. The profit motive, in other words, catalyzed by government duplicity, lured “pioneer” devel…
Segregation by Design
This article explores the ways in which architecture, landscape design, and site planning helped maintain racial segregation in housing in Atlanta, Georgia, between the 1960s and 1990s. Under Jim Crow, apartment complexes in Atlanta hewed to national design norms. By the late 1960s, however, racial tension, rioting, and passage of the Fair Housing Act led to proliferation of the architecture of enclosure: design that helped code communities as wh…
Siobhan Moroney, Chicagoland Dream Houses
In Levittown's Shadow
Garden Apartments
American Environmental and Regional History (3 works) · Civil engineering (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (3 works) · Apartment (2 works) · Architecture (2 works)