Anthony Flint

Anthony Flint is director of public affairs at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in Cambridge, Massachusetts

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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.

After revisiting Moses, New York turns again to Jane Jacobs

Now it’s Jane’s turn.

Borrowed time

The collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis puts the spotlight on the unsexy topic of infrastructure maintenance. But a smart growth policy, "Fix it First," has been focused in the area for some time. The policy, in place in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and for the last four years in Massachusetts, states that no new highways or bridges can be built until all existing infrastructure is in a state of good repair. Generally this meant stuff that was in and around existing cities; thus it's a smart growth policy, as the makeovers make cities and older suburbs more liveable and functional, while sprawl-enabling highway construction is limited.

Revisiting Robert Moses

The message from last weekend's two-day symposium at Columbia University, the Queens Museum and the Museum of the City of New York on Robert Moses: many aspects of the master builder's place in history haven't been told, despite Robert Caro's 1,162-page Pulizter Prize-winning biography; and that New York may need to rethink the paradigm for big plans and community engagement as the unique metropolis makes new investments in transit, roadways and large redevelopment projects from Ground Zero to Hudson Yards.