Anthony Flint
Anthony Flint is a fellow at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, a think tank in Cambridge, Mass., and author of Wrestling With Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York’s Master Builder and Transformed the American City and This Land: The Battle Over Sprawl and the Future of America. His next book, The Raven: The Life of Le Corbusier, Maker of the Modern will be published in the fall of 2014 by Amazon Publishing.
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Reinventing Public Art, Thousands of LEDs at a Time
Screen-based installations are heading to cities all over the world.
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Urban Wonk
The Secret Conservative War on Zoning
The controversial American Legislative Exchange Council appears to be behind a new effort to unravel local zoning and regulatory authority across the country.
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The Risky Business of Parking Lot Creation
A wetlands restoration project in Boston is a cautionary tale about making bad decisions in the first place.
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At the 20th Congress for the New Urbanism, a Movement Feels its Age
They used to be radicals, now they're establishment. Has it changed their approach to development?
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Boston's Highway That Went Nowhere: Lessons from the Inner Belt Fight, 40 Years Later
In the 1950s and 1960s, as Boston was busy razing the West End and plunging ahead with urban renewal, transportation planners were pushing an 8-lane bypass highway.
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As Fenway Park Turns 100, Remember That It Almost Didn't Make It
The historic ballpark fought off demolition and ended up better off for it.
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What Mumbai and Beijing Can Learn From New York
Two recent exhibits highlight American planning's strengths alongside its great weaknesses.
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How the 2012 TED Prize, The City 2.0, Aims to Crowdsource the Future
With a wiki to connect citizens, political leaders, urban experts, companies, and organizations, TED tees up the goal of improving the 21st century city.
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The Greening of Houston
How America's oil and gas capitol came to design a park at the forefront of green public space.
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Urban Wonk
A Boston Museum's Deft Attempt at Balancing Old and New
How the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum walked the tightrope between its founder's wishes and a sleek new design
