Global warming. Disappearing farmland. Long commutes and climbing gas prices. Anthony Flint [bio], a 20-year journalist now at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, a think-tank based in Cambridge, Mass., specializes in planning and development policy and the built environment -- the foundation of environmental, energy, and economic policy. After 16 years covering urban life, development, architecture and transportation for The Boston Globe, including a weekly column on urban design and public space, he wrote This Land: The Battle over Sprawl and the Future of America, a cultural and political account of changing development patterns in the U.S. that the Library Journal called "engaging, vivid and provocative." This Land chronicles smart growth, New Urbanism and green building, as well as property rights and all the powerful forces that propagate sprawl. Anthony Flint, past visiting scholar at Harvard Design School is author of a forthcoming book on the clash of Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses, to be published by Random House in 2008. He lectures nationwide on urbanism and trends in land and living, in the context of dwindling energy resources and climate change.