Anthony Flint

Anthony Flint is senior fellow at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, host of the Land Matters podcast, contributing editor at Land Lines magazine, and a correspondent for Bloomberg CityLab and The Boston Globe. He is author of Mayor’s Desk: 20 Conversations with Local Leaders Solving Global Problems; Modern Man: The Life of Le Corbusier, Architect of Tomorrow; Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took on New York’s Master Builder and Transformed the American City (winner of the Christopher Award); This Land: The Battle over Sprawl and the Future of America; and coeditor of Smart Growth Policies: An Evaluation of Programs and Outcomes. He was a policy advisor on smart growth for Massachusetts state government, a visiting scholar and Loeb Fellow at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, a practitioners fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, and the first visiting fellow at the American Library in Paris. He earned his BA from Middlebury College and an MS from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, and attended the University of St. Andrews, the Salzburg Global Seminar, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. In 2025, he was awarded the Boston Society of Architects Honorary Membership for his journalism about architecture, urban planning, and urban design.