Biography

Anthony Flint is 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 working on his next book, to be published in 2008 by Random House, on the battles between Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses in New York City in the 1960s. He was a visiting scholar at Harvard Design School while writing This Land: The Battle Over Sprawl and the Future of America, published in April 2006 by Johns Hopkins University Press. He was a newspaper 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, Boston Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Architectural Record 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. 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.

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