THURSDAY Lecture/Book Signing: Anthony Flint on ‘Wrestling with Moses - How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City’

On Thursday, February 20th at 2pm in the Rosenthal Lecture Room at the Foundation’s offices, Anthony Flint will speak on his book ‘Wrestling with Moses - How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City’. 

Anthony Flint is a fellow and director of public affairs at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. He has been a policy advisor on smart growth for Massachusetts state government, a visiting scholar and Loeb Fellow at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, and a visiting fellow at The Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center and The American Library in Paris. A curator and speaker at numerous TED conferences, he is a regular contributor to The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, GlobalPost, Planning magazine, Planetizen, and many other publications. 

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. 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. This story reminds us of the power we have as individuals to confront and defy reckless authority. 

Flint’s next book, ‘Modern  Man: The Life of Le Corbusier, Architect of Tomorrow’ an account of the father of modern architecture, will be published in November 2014. 

The San Francisco Chronicle said of his book “if there’s such a thing as beach reading for the urban studies set, it’s Wrestling with Moses.” 

The lecture is free to members and students and $20 for non-members.  Seating is limited.  To make reservations, or for more information, please call 561.832.0731.