Anthony Flint

Blogger, Connector, Environmentalist, Idea generator, Journalist, Policy maker, Writer/Editor

Anthony Flint is a fellow and director of public affairs at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, a think tank in Cambridge, Mass. www.lincolninst.edu., author of Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took on New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City (Random House) and This Land: The Battle over Sprawl and the Future of America (Johns Hopkins University Press), and co-editor of Smart Growth Policies: An Evaluation of Programs and Outcomes (Lincoln Institute). He has been a journalist for over 20 years, primarily at The Boston Globe, a policy advisor on smart growth for Massachusetts state government, and a visiting scholar and Loeb Fellow at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. He is a regular contributor to The Boston Globe, The Boston Globe’s online commentary forum, The Angle, The Atlantic Cities, The Next American City, Planning magazine, Planetizen, Citiwire.net, and GlobalPost. He is author of the Lincoln Institute blog. At Lincoln House, Developing Stories, at the author's website www.anthonyflint.net, and the Community Voices blog at The Boston Globe on urban design and public space, This Land.. He appeared at TEDx Tampa Bay in 2011 presenting on infrastructure and neighborhoods, and led a TEDx Adventure on street design for TEDx Boston. His next book, to be published by Amazon in 2014, will tell the story of Le Corbusier, the father of modern architecture. Wrestling with Moses won a Christopher Award in April 2010.

Cities, urban planning and urban design, environmental protection, smart growth, affordable housing, land conservation

Cities, the grandest form of civilization, are the key to the planet's future. They are where over half the globe's population lives, a number that will only increase. They are sources for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and efficiencies in per capita energy consumption. They require both the principles of human-scaled neighborhood design of Jane Jacobs, and the public finance innovation and vision for infrastructure and regional planning of Robert Moses.

Architecture, Urban Design, Urban Planning

I first participated in TEDx Boston, presented at TEDx Tampa Bay, and led a TEDx Adventure on innovative street design in Cambridge, Mass. at TEDx Boston

Photography, poetry, squash