Matthew Yglesias

Yglesias is an editor at Vox and longtime journalist and blogger who has become, in my opinion, the strongest voice either inside or outside professional/academic planning calling for less restrictive zoning to promote housing production and (he argues) affordability. In addition to his role in what I believe to be the most important debate in planning theory today, he exemplifies the new importance of "public intellectuals" outside the profession and planning academics to planning theory and practice.