ANTHONY FLINT is an author, journalist, and speaker chronicling human settlement and the built environment, with expertise in global urbanization, housing, climate change, and architecture and urban design. A correspondent for Bloomberg CityLab and the Boston Globe, he is author of Mayor’s Desk: 20 Conversations with Local Leaders Solving Global Problems;  Modern Man: The Life of Le Corbusier, Architect of Tomorrow; Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took on New York’s Master Builder and Transformed the American City; This Land: The Battle over Sprawl and the Future of America; and co-editor of Smart Growth Policies: An Evaluation of Programs and Outcomes.

He was a senior fellow at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, where he was contributing editor at Land Lines magazine, host of the Land Matters podcast, and convener of an annual journalists workshop. He also served as policy advisor on smart growth for Massachusetts state government, a visiting scholar and Loeb Fellow at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, a practitioner fellow at The Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, and writer in residence at The American Library in Paris. His essays have appeared at Vital City, Metropolis, Planning magazine, Planetizen,  Architecture Boston, Architecture magazine, and many other publications. A speaker at TEDxBoston andTEDxTampaBay, he was awarded the Boston Society of Architects Honorary Membership for his journalism about architecture, urban planning, and urban design. He earned his B.A. from Middlebury College and an M.S. from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, and attended the University of St. Andrews, the Salzburg Seminar, and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. Wrestling with Moses won a Christopher Award in 2010.