Speaking Engagements

Anthony Flint, a 20-year journalist and author at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, a think-tank based in Cambridge, Mass., is is available for speaking engagements on cities, climate change, post-carbon energy and green building, demographic trends and development patterns, and architecture and urban design. He is author of Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took on New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City (Random House, 2009) and This Land: The Battle Over Sprawl and the Future of America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006). For information regarding speaking engagements, contact Irina Woelfle 786-220-5049 irina at iwprgroup.com or Linda Stephen 402-483-0747 linda at iwprgroup.com, IWPR Group.

2011

Worcester Business Development Corporation Annual Meeting, DCU Center, Worcester, MA April 28, 2011

Sustainable Urbanism Conference, Congress for the New Urbanism New England Chapter, Local Food symposium, Yale University, New Haven, CT March 17-18, 2011

Smart Growth Conference, Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut, March 4, 2011

2010

Rollins College, Department of Environmental Studies, Hamilton Holt School, Masters of Planning in Civic Urbanism, Winter Park, Florida, November 3, 2010

Committee for the Green Foothills, Palo Alto Art Center, 1313 Newell Road, Palo Alto, CA, October 15, 2010

World Future Society 2010, Westin Waterfront, Boston, July 8, 2010

Metropolitan Area Planning Council, Boston, April 21, 2010, 6 p.m.

New York Public Library, Mid-Manhattan Branch, New York, March 9, 2010, 6:30 p.m.

New England Women in Real Estate, Piper Rudnick, Boston, March 2, 2010, 6 p.m.

2009 Book Tour for Wrestling with Moses

Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, author's reading and discussion

Porter Square Books, Cambridge, MA, August 4, 2009, 7:00 p.m.

Politics & Prose, Washington DC, August 11, 2009, 7:00 p.m.

University Club Ramsay Breakfast, Toronto, August 13, 2009, 7:30 a.m.

Northshire Bookstore, Manchester, VT, August 29, 2009, 6:00 p.m.

Urban Center Books, New York, NY, September 21, 2009, 6:30 PM

Water Street Bookstore, Exeter, NH, September 25, 2009, 7:00 PM

University Club of Boston, Boston, MA, September 30, 2009 6 p.m.

The Skyscraper Museum, New York, NY, October 1, 2009, 6:00 p.m.

The Tenement Museum, New York, NY, October 8, 2009, 6:30 p.m.

Powell's Books on Hawthorne, Portland, OR, October 15, 2009, 7:30 PM

San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association, San Francisco, October 16, 2009, 12:30 p.m.

MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning speaker series, co-sponsored by American Planning Association/Massachusetts Chapter, MIT Stata Center, Cambridge, MA, October 21, 2009, 6:30 p.m.

Northeastern University School of Journalism, Boston, MA, October 22, 2009, 3:00 p.m.

College Speaker Series, Boston, MA, October 28, 2009, 6:00 p.m.

Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA, November 2, 2009, 5:30 p.m.

American Planning Association/New Jersey Chapter/Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, November 6, 2009, 1:00 p.m.

Rebuilding Together Boston, Blue Cross-Blue Shield at Landmark Center, Boston, December 2, 2009

Urban Land Institute/Boston District Council, Boston, MA, December 11, 2009, 12 noon




2008

Oct. 16, 2008 Our World lecture series, Amesbury Middle School auditorium, Amesbury, Mass.

June 9, 2008 MassImpact/Cities & Climate Change Symposium, Wong Auditorium/Tang Center at MIT (70 Memorial Drive), Cambridge MA

Mar. 27, 2008 Redevelopment: Collaborate 2008, Orange County Planning Division/APA, Orange County Convention Center, West Building, Orlando, FL

2007

Dec. 19, 2007 Boston Public Library: "Shaping the 21st-Century City," the Boston Society of Architects Lecture Series

Oct. 18, 2007 Howard E. Woodin Colloquium Series, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont

Oct. 15, 2007 Living and Working in Paradise II, Outer Banks Community Development Corporation, Kitty Hawk, N.C.

Oct. 11, 2007 Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Lincoln Lecture series, "Perpetual Growth: Cost and Coping Strategies," with author Anne Mackin, Cambridge, Mass.

Oct. 4, 2007 2007 Great Northwest Planning Conference, Oregon and Washington chapters, American Planning Association, Tacoma

Sept. 19, 2007 Metropolitan Center for Regional Studies, University of Central Florida, Orlando

Sept. 14, 2007 Design for Health workshop, University of Minnesota, Hubert. H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, Minneapolis

May 17, 2007 Congress for the New Urbanism XV, Philadelphia

April 2007 Groton Public Library / Nashua River Watershed Association

Mar. 19, 2007 Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA

Feb. 22, 2007 Urban Land Institute, Southwest Florida, 10th Annual Winter Institute on the Gulf, Naples, FL

Feb. 8, 2007 New Partners for Smart Growth, Los Angeles

2006

Dec. 1, 2006: Massachusetts Smart Growth Conference, panel on form-based codes, Worcester, Mass

Nov. 15, 2006: BuildBoston, panel on smart growth, World Trade Center Boston

Nov. 13, 2006: "This is Smart Growth," Leading Practices in Smart Growth Symposium presented by ICMA University with support from the Smart Growth Network and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, at Brownfields conference, Boston

Nov. 10-12, 3006: Vero Beach Book Festival

Nov. 6, 2006: High Winds Fund lecture, Macalaster College, St. Paul

Nov. 2, 2006: Land Development West Conference, Las Vegas Keynote speaker: "Smart Growth's Tipping Point"

Oct. 27: Keynote speaker, Natick 360 Vision for the Future Conference, Natick, Mass.

Oct. 19, 2006: Urban Land Institute, Panel on Infrastructure, Denver

Oct. 13-15, 2006: Southern Festival of Books, Memphis

Oct. 3, 2006: AARP's 2020 Vision series panel "Building for Boomers: Community and Home", Las Vegas

Sept. 19, 2006: Building a Better Bend, Bend, Ore. "Finding Home: Strategies for Affordability" Tower Theatre

2006 Book Tour for This Land

New York: Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni weekend book fair, Low Library Rotunda, April 21
San Antonio: American Planning Association conference, April 23
Boston: Boston Athenaeum May 4
Cambridge, MA: Loeb Fellowship 36th reunion, Harvard Design School May 5
Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Keynote for City Planners Dinner, May 11
Boston, MA: New England Women in Real Estate, Northeast Regional Conference, Hyatt regency Boston, May 12
Cambridge, MA: Harvard Book Store, Author Event Series, May 12
Washington, D.C.: Politics & Prose bookstore May 13
Washington, D.C.: Smart growth speaker series, National Building Museum May 15
Boston: Borders Downtown Crossing, co-sponsored by the Boston Scoiety of Architects, May 24
Providence, R.I.: Congress for the New Urbanism, June 2
Washington, D.C. The Brookings Institution, Metropolitan Policy Program, June 6
Garden City, NY L.I. Mayors Institute on Community Design, sponsored by the Regional Plan Association, June 8
Denver: The Tattered Cover, (LoDo), Rocky Mountain Land Series, June 10
San Francisco: Stacey's San Francisco, June 12
San Francisco: San Francisco Planning + Urban Research Association, June 12
Portland, OR: Powell's Books, June 13
Portland, OR: McCall Society lecture, June 14
Seattle:Town Hall Center for Civic Life with Elliot Bay Book Co., June 15
Chicago: "Tuesdays at APA," forum co-sponsored by the American Planning Association, the Campaign for Sensible Growth and the Metropolitan Planning Council, June 20
Boston, MA: Midday lecture series, Old South Meeting House, June 21