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Anthony Flint
Anthony Flint is author of "Modern Man: The Life of Le Corbusier, Architect of Tomorrow," a narrative nonfiction account of the father of modern architecture, published by New Harvest / Amazon Publishing http://www.apub.com/. He is also author of "Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New... show more

Anthony Flint is author of "Modern Man: The Life of Le Corbusier, Architect of Tomorrow," a narrative nonfiction account of the father of modern architecture, published by New Harvest / Amazon Publishing http://www.apub.com/. He is also author of "Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City" (Random House 2009) and "This Land: The Battle over Sprawl and the Future of America" (Johns Hopkins, 2006), and co-editor of "Smart Growth Policies: An Evaluation of Programs and Outcomes" (Lincoln Institute, 2009). A veteran journalist, primarily at The Boston Globe, he writes about architecture, urban planning and sustainability. He is a regular contributor to CityLab http://www.citylab.com/authors/anthony-flint/, part of The Atlantic magazine, as well as The Boston Globe, The New Republic, GlobalPost, Next City, Planning magazine, Planetizen, Citiwire, Architecture Boston, and many other publications; author of the blogs At Lincoln House at www.lincolninst.edu, This Land at Boston.com, and Developing Stories at the author's website www.anthonyflint.net. Currently a fellow and director of public affairs at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy (www.lincolninst.edu), a think-tank in Cambridge, Mass., he served as a policy advisor in the Office for Commonwealth Development, the Massachusetts state agency coordinating growth policy, and has been a fellow at The Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center and The American Library in Paris, and a visiting scholar and Loeb Fellow at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. He is curator and speaker at TEDxBeaconStreet and TEDxTampaBay. On Twitter @anthonyflint and on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/anthonyflint.author. "Wrestling with Moses" won a Christopher Award in 2010.
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The Curious Curator's Book Blog rated it 10 years ago
Le Corbusier (pseudonym for Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) is considered one of the most influential architects of the 20th century, credited with starting the ‘starchitect’ trend, along with his American rival, Frank Lloyd Wright. He broke with established ideas about what architecture and urbanism sho...
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