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The economics and future of skyscrapers
October 16, 2025
Jason M. Barr is a professor of economics at Rutgers University-Newark, the New York LAI chapter president, and the Land Economics Foundation Treasurer. Dr. Barr is the author of Building the Skyline: The Birth and Growth of Manhattan’s Skyscrapers (OUP, 2016) and Cities in the Sky: The Quest to Build the World’s Tallest Skyscrapers (Scribner 2014). He currently writes the Skynomics Blog, a blog about skyscrapers, cities, and economics. In 2024, he won the LAI International Author Award.
This article previously appeared in the July/August 2025 issue of Real Assets Adviser. It is printed with permission from the publisher, Institutional Real Estate, Inc.
Photo Credit: “Toronto skyline as viewed from Algonquin Island” by K6ka licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International on Wikimedia Commons.
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