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Anthony Flint

Speech Topics:
Wrestling with Moses
Jane Jacobs and New York City
The American City
Smart Growth
Land Policy and Property Rights
Sustainable Development
Development and Real Estate Trends
Urban Affairs

Anthony Flint, an expert on trends in land use, cities and the built environment, is the author of two books: Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took on New York’s Master Builder and Transformed the American City, a narrative nonfiction account of the clash of Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses in New York City in the 1950s and 60s (Random House, 2009) and This Land: The Battle Over Sprawl and the Future of America, an account of the smart growth movement (John Hopkins University Press, 2006). 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.

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.

His articles and essays have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, 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.

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