Anthony Flint

Anthony Flint is director of public affairs at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, a think-tank in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has been a journalist for 20 years, primarily at The Boston Globe, where he covered planning and development, transportation and architecture. His articles have appeared in Planning, Landscape Architecture, Architectural Record, The Hartford Courant and the Boston Sunday Globe Magazine. He was a visiting scholar at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design in 2005 while writing This Land: The Battle over Sprawl and the Future of America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006). He was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard in 2000-2001, and served in the Office for Commonwealth Development, the state agency coordinating housing, transportation, energy and environment, before joining the Lincoln Institute, where he continues to do writing and research on land, cities and development. His forthcoming book on the clash of Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses in New York City in the 1950s and 1960s will be published by Random House in 2008.