Anthony Flint

how Jane Jacobs took on New York's master builder and transformed the American city

Wrestling with Moses

The rivalry of Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses, a struggle for the soul of a city, is one of the most dramatic and consequential in modern American history. To a young Jane Jacobs, Greenwich Village, with its winding cobblestone streets and diverse makeup, was everything a city neighborhood should be. But consummate power broker Robert Moses, the father of many of New York’s most monumental development projects, thought neighborhoods like Greenwich Village were badly in need of “urban renewal.” Standing up against government plans for the city, Jacobs marshaled popular support and political power against Moses, whether to block traffic through her beloved Washington Square Park or to prevent the construction of the Lower Manhattan Expressway, an elevated superhighway that would have destroyed centuries-old streetscapes and displaced thousands of families. By confronting Moses and his vision, Jacobs forever changed the way Americans understood the city. Her story reminds us of the power we have as individuals to confront and defy reckless authority.

How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City

Draws on archival research and new interviews to present a biography of the renowned architect, shedding light on the details of his most important projects, his artistic process, and his complicated legacy.

The Life of Le Corbusier, Architect of Tomorrow

Modern Man

Le Corbusier. Architekt jutra

From the award-winning author of Wrestling with Moses comes a fascinating, accessible biography of the most important architect of the twentieth century. Modern Man is a riveting biography of Le Corbusier--a man who invented new ways of building and thinking. Modern Man is a penetrating psychological portrait of a true genius and constant self-inventor, as well as a sweeping tale filled with exotic locales, sex and celebrity (he was a lover of Josephine Baker), and high-stakes projects. In Flint's telling, Corbusier isn't just the grandfather of modern architecture but a man who sought to remake the world according to his vision, dispelling the Victorian style and replacing it with something never seen before. His legacy remains controversial today, as the world grapples with how to house its skyrocketing urban population and the cult of the "starchitect" continues to grow. Modern Man is for listeners fascinated by the complex personal lives and outsized visions of both groundbreaking artists and dazzling, charismatic innovators like Steve Jobs.

But with up to 120 million more people in the country by 2050, will the spread-out pattern cave in on itself? Could Americans embrace a new approach to development if it made sense for them?A veteran journalist who covered planning, development, and housing for the Boston Globe for sixteen years and a visiting scholar in 2005 at the Harvard Design

The Battle over Sprawl and the Future of America

This Land

Człowiek, który zmienił XX wiek: wielkie wizje, wielkie kontrowersje. Biografia Le Corbusiera, geniusza, który wierzył, że jego architektura będzie zmieniać społeczeństwo. Kontrowersyjne projekty, spektakularne realizacje, niezwykłe podróże i pełen sprzeczności portret psychologiczny człowieka legendy. Życie i dzieło ikony modernizmu. [...] Spojrzenie Anthony’ego Flinta na „pierwszą gwiazdę architektury” przenikliwie wychwytuje pychę i słabości Le Corbusiera, które są istotne dla jego artystycznego znaczenia. –„Kirkus Reviews” Flint maluje portret dość zróżnicowany, w ten sposób dociera do istoty tego, dlaczego Le Corbusier pozostaje tak enigmatyczną i zniewalającą postacią. – „The Washington Post” Anthony Flint – dyrektor ds. publicznych w Lincoln Instutute of Land Policy, doradca polityczny ds. zrównoważonego rozwoju w administracji stanu Massachusetts, stypendysta Harvard University Graduate School of Design, prelegent na TEDxBeaconStreet i TEDxTampaBay. Od lat pisze i współpracuje m.in. z „The Boston Globe”, „The New Republic”, „GlobalPost”, „Next City”, „Metropolis”. Człowiek wielu profesji i zainteresowań, autor Wrestling with Moses, za którą w 2010 roku otrzymał Christopher Award.

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