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Anthony Flint [bio],
a 20-year journalist and author at the Lincoln
Institute of Land Policy, a think-tank based in Cambridge, Mass.,
writes about cities and the built environment. A former reporter for
The Boston Globe,
Loeb Fellow, visiting scholar at Harvard Design School, and policy
adviser in Massachusetts state government, he is the author of 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, published by Random House (July 2009). Book tour and
speaking appearances are listed here.
His previous book, This Land: The Battle over Sprawl and the Future
of America, a cultural and political analysis of the smart growth
movement, was published by Johns Hopkins University Press. He lectures
nationwide on urbanism and trends in land and living, in the coming
post-cheap oil, post-carbon future.
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Advance
praise for Wrestling with Moses:
“Anthony Flint has written a riveting account of a struggle
between opposites that forever redefined the American city. With no
formal training in urban planning, Jane Jacobs had the audacity to
take on Robert Moses and the passion to save old New York from the
wrecking ball.”
—James L. Swanson, Edgar Award–winning author
of the New York Times bestseller Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s
Killer
“Beautifully written, Wrestling with Moses is a step back in
time to the bohemia of Greenwich Village in the 1960s, when Bob Dylan’s
music filled the streets and revolution was in the air. As a woman
standing up to power, Jane Jacobs blazed a trail. This is a remarkable
book.”
—Brad Matsen, author of Titanic’s Last Secrets
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Favorite Links:
Lincoln
Institute of Land Policy
Planetizen
SmartGrowth
America
Transportation
for America
Congress for the New
Urbanism
American Planning
Association
Other Books by Anthony Flint:
Amazon
Barnes
& Noble
Johns
Hopkins University Press
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