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Jason Barr

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Council Role

Height and Data Committee

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Rutgers University

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Location

Newark, United States

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Jason M. Barr is a professor of economics at Rutgers University-Newark, and an affiliated member of the Rutgers Global Urban Systems (GUS) Ph.D. program. His research interests include urban economics, real estate economics, and the economics of tall buildings. Dr. Barr received his bachelor’s degree from Cornell University (1992), an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College (1995), and a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University (2002). He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, the Eastern Economic Journal, and the International Journal of High-Rise Buildings. 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.

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