Anthony Flint
Director of Public Affairs, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Anthony Flint is director of public affairs at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, a think-tank in Cambridge, Massachusetts , and a writer on urbanism and development patterns. He was a visiting scholar at Harvard Design School while writing This Land: The Battle over Sprawl and the Future of America, which was published by The John Hopkins University Press in April 2006. The book analyzes sprawl and smart growth, and includes a section on the connection between physical activity and the built environment. He is working on his next book, to be published in 2008 by Random House, on the clash of Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses in New York City in the 1950s and 60s.
He has been a journalist for over twenty years, primarily at The Boston Globe, where he covered urban planning, development, architecture and transportation; served as City Hall bureau chief and on presidential campaign coverage teams; and had a weekly column on urban design and public space. Over the last several years his articles and essays have appeared in The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, The Hartford Courant, the online journal PLANetizen, Planning magazine, the Journal of the American Planning Association, 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.
A graduate of Middlebury College and Columbia University 's Graduate School of Journalism, he was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard in 2000-2001, and served in 2005-2006 as education director at the Office for Commonwealth Development, the Massachusetts agency coordinating housing, transportation, environment and energy. He serves as a member of the Metropolitan Area Planning Commission's MetroFuture Task Force, implementing a visioning plan for future development patterns in Massachusetts.
Anthony Flint is a keynote speaker for the Implementing Health into Planning event on September 14, 2007.
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