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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 a fellow and director of public affairs at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, a think tank 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 (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 frequent contributor to Citiwire.net, The Boston Globe, Planning magazine, Planetizen, Architecture Boston, The Next American City, and GlobalPost, and is the author of three blogs.

Wrestling with Moses won a Christopher Award in April 2010. He is a graduate of Middlebury College and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

Travels from Boston.

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