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How are America cities, citistates, rural areas growing? What are the alternatives for future development that communities can shape for their sustainability in this century? Among American journalists, Anthony Flint is a leading figure in analyzing those trends and possibilities – analysis summed up in his 2006 book, This Land: The Battle Over Sprawl and the Future of America,written while he was a visiting scholar at the Harvard Design School.
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. Presently he is public affairs manager at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in Cambridge, Mass., and working on a book for Random House on the epoch clash between Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses in New York City in the 1960s. 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 August 15, 2007 |