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Anthony Flint is a Fellow and Director of Public Affairs at the Lincoln
Institute of Land Policy, a think-tank based in Cambridge, Mass.,
where he is engaged in writing and research about urbanism and development
patterns. 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). He was a visiting
scholar at Harvard Design School while writing This
Land: The Battle Over Sprawl and the Future of America, published
in 2006 by Johns Hopkins University Press. He has been a journalist
for twenty years, primarily at The Boston Globe, where he covered
urban planning, development, architecture and transportation, and
had a weekly column on urban design and public space. His articles
and essays have appeared in The
Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, The
Hartford Courant, the online journal PLANetizen,
and PLANetizen's "Contemporary
Debates in Urban Planning" (Island Press 2007) Planning
magazine, Architecture
Boston, Landscape
Architecture, Architectural
Record, The
Next American City and Land
Lines. He has also published papers on planning and transit for
the Rappaport Institute of Greater Boston at Harvard's
Kennedy School of Government and a chapter on planning in the
book Governing Greater Boston. He was co-editor of the volume Smart
Growth Policies. A graduate of Middlebury College and Columbia
University's Graduate School of Journalism, he served in 2005-2006
as education director at the Office for Commonwealth Development,
the Massachusetts agency
coordinating housing, transportation, environment and energy. He was
also a Loeb Fellow at Harvard in 2000-2001. He is author of three
blogs: At
Lincoln House, This
Land and Developing
Stories.
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