Anthony Flint
@anthonyflint
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Urbanist, father, fellow at @landpolicy, writer for Bloomberg CityLab & The Boston Globe, author of Mayor's Desk, Modern Man, Wrestling with Moses & This Land
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Joined April 2009
Neat trick to conjure Henry George out of this moment. I had a book proposal about the three-way race for mayor in NYC back in 1886. As my followers well know, Henry George inspired the founder of the Lincoln Institute.
washingtonpost.com
Henry George shows why rent control and taxes won’t solve nation’s land crisis.
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Something pretty cool about this.
christianitytoday.com
Stewarding our neighborhoods is part of Christian hospitality.
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Curious what others think of this situation. My latest at Bloomberg @CityLab
bloomberg.com
With South Station Tower, developer Hines dropped a trophy office and residential building on top of the city’s historic 19th-century train station.
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Our problem isn’t vaccines, food dyes, or Tylenol. It’s fat. The Milken Institute and McKinsey have estimated that obesity costs us about $400 billion annually in direct medical costs and lost productivity.
profgalloway.com
America is now one giant bet on AI. If not for the Magnificent 10, the markets would be flat for the year. There’s a different technology that offers more asymmetric upside. If we want to transform...
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Fabulous digital storytelling with great visuals & clear prose @bycathcarlock. My quote is about landowners & government working together to build resilience; as in Miami et al, the private sector gets the clear need to contribute to this effort.
apps.bostonglobe.com
Buildings in the Seaport fund one-tenth of Boston’s property-tax base. Flood waters and sea level rise will soon put that at risk.
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A comprehensive and insightful look by my @landpolicy colleague Jon Gorey on * the * hot topic in local and regional land use right now. Data Drain: The Land and Water Impacts of the AI Boom - Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
lincolninst.edu
Communities across the US are wooing data centers with tax breaks and other incentives. But data centers are resource-ravenous, creating demands for land, water, and power that many host communities...
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Listen: https://t.co/nZoLsTN2mj This episode complements the revival of our Visualizing Density resource, which was pushed live this month. It’s a visual guide to density based on a library of aerial images of buildings, blocks, and neighborhoods:
lincolninst.edu
Visualizing Density is an online database featuring more than 100 images of density in the built environment across the US, with associated characteristics including walkability and access to transit...
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This year's Climate Forward is well worth watching
nytimes.com
At The New York Times’s Climate Forward event, California’s governor called Trump’s recent comments denying climate change “an embarrassment.” The U.S. energy secretary then said other countries...
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What better way to think about something else than— like how #density is braided together with affordability? The latest Land Matters podcast
lincolninst.edu
A conversation all about density, on the occasion of the return of an online resource, Visualizing Density, at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy website. Density is in the spotlight as cities and...
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Jane Jacobs wasn't anti-development. @anthonyflint of @landpolicy explains how and when the urbanist legend actually supported density: https://t.co/0AfKcCHXHH cc @MASNYC
vitalcitynyc.org
The 20th century’s leading urbanist was not against development. So what was she for?
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I'll have to leave it to my kids to see what happens in the world's cities in 2080, but suffice to say it's going to get interesting.
bloomberg.com
The century from 1980 to 2080 will be a period of rapid urban expansion that strains housing and planning capacity around the world. Then comes population decline, and an uncertain future.
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We recently relaunched Visualizing Density, an online database featuring >100 images of the built environment that helps show how different densities play a role in housing affordability and fit into the context of cities and towns around the world. https://t.co/hKjG2M0K8f
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More to come on the subject of #density this week, but here's my essay @VitalCityNYC magazine's special issue on #housing, https://t.co/zjMZSeHrKt, about the abundance agenda and throwing a certain patron saint of urbanism a little bit under the bus.
vitalcitynyc.org
The 20th century’s leading urbanist was not against development. So what was she for?
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My interview with the mayor of Denver, Mike Johnston -- the latest installment in our series Mayor's Desk, Q&A's with municipal leaders from around the world
lincolninst.edu
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https://t.co/dJ9T5f4iX6? Classic example of office-to-residential conversion. I defy it not to do well, adding supply and freeing up homes elsewhere in the Boston housing market.
bisnow.com
New York-based Aden Capital Management acquired 95 Berkeley St., which is proposed for a 92-unit office-to-residential conversion.
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It’s back to the future when dealing with heat
atmos.earth
As buildings crack under record heat, architects are rediscovering ancient technologies.
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My Harvard School of Public Health essay from last fall pleading for the inclusion of the Covid shots in NVICP https://t.co/0WZ1gW540X?
harvardpublichealth.org
Vaccine side effects are rarely discussed in an effort to counter the anti-vax crowd, but there are real victims who deserve to be heard.
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Politico's take. A key point is this: "... he wants to increase the statute of limitations and to somehow compensate people injured by Covid-19 vaccines via the VICP; they currently fall under a separate program that’s been widely panned as ineffective."
politico.com
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is promoting his plan to “fix” the system that HHS uses to compensate people injured by vaccines.
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... and feed my story and that of hundreds of others into a database so the pharmaceutical companies can make a better vaccine -- shots that don't trigger GBS. Flu, RSV, Shingrix all do.
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