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Anthony Flint

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Anthony Flint, an expert on trends in land and living, is the author of This Land: The Battle Over Sprawl and the Future of America, an account of the smart growth movement published in April 2006 by Johns Hopkins University Press. He has been a journalist for 20 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, Planning magazine, Boston Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Architectural Record, and Land Lines. He has also published papers 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, Flint was a visiting scholar at Harvard Design School while writing This Land, and served in 2005-2006 as education director at the Office for Commonwealth Development, the state agency in Massachusetts created by Governor Mitt Romney that coordinates housing, transportation, energy and the environment.

Flint is now public affairs manager at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, the think-tank based in Cambridge, Mass. that focuses on land and development issues. He is currently working on a new book on the battles between Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses in New York City through the 1960s, to be published by Random House.

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