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Anthony Flint is a veteran journalist long focused on development issues, now public affairs manager with the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in Cambridge, Mass. He is the author of Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took on New York’s Master Builder and Transformed the American City (2009) and This Land: The Battle Over Sprawl and the Future of America (2006).
For over 20 years, primarily at the Boston Globe, Flint covered urban planning, development, architecture and transportation, as well as serving as City Hall bureau chief and on presidential campaign coverage teams. He also wrote a weekly column on urban design and public space. Flint’s 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, Planning magazine, Boston Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Architectural Record and Land Lines. He has also published papers and a chapter on planning in Governing Greater Boston for the Rappaport Institute of Greater Boston at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Prior to joining the Lincoln Institute, Flint served in 2005-2006 as education director at the Office for Commonwealth Development, the Massachusetts agency coordinating state housing, transportation, environment and energy established under the administration of then Gov. Mitt Romney. He currently serves as a member of the Boston Metropolitan Area Planning Commission’s MetroFutures Task Force. Last updated July 6, 2009. |