1. MASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION OF PLANNING DIRECTORS, INC.
P.O. BOX 912, GREENFIELD, MA 01302
MAPD Annual Conference – Special Event!
During the 2012 MAPD Annual Conference in
Springfield, we are pleased to announce the
addition of a special lunchtime talk on June 7,
2012 by Anthony Flint, author and fellow at the
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
Flint will discuss the importance of
communications in planning – how language
does or does not resonate, in engaging the
citizenry. “Resilience” and “prosperity” are in –
“sustainability” and “fighting sprawl,” not so much.
Flint, author of Wrestling with Moses: How Jane
Jacobs Took on New York's Master Builder and
Transformed the American City (Random House)
and This Land: The Battle over Sprawl and the
Future of America (Johns Hopkins University Press),
and co-editor of Smart Growth Policies: An Evaluation of Programs and
Outcomes (Lincoln Institute), will also demonstrate cutting-edge visualization
and scenario planning tools, and an initiative to ease their use and make
them open source. This event will showcase a report and initiative recently
released by the Lincoln Institute, further info at:
http://www.lincolninst.edu/pubs/2027_Opening-Access-to-Scenario-Planning-Tools
Of interest in its own right, Mr. Flint’s talk will also serve as a preview to a more
lengthy presentation, which will kick off MAPD’s 2012-13 monthly luncheon
series in September!
Speaker Biography
Anthony Flint is a fellow and director of public affairs at the Lincoln Institute of Land
Policy, a think tank in Cambridge, Mass. www.lincolninst.edu. He has been a
journalist for over 20 years, primarily at The Boston Globe, a policy advisor on smart
growth for Massachusetts state government, and a visiting scholar and Loeb Fellow
at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. He is a regular contributor to The
Boston Globe and The Atlantic Monthly’s The Atlantic Cities, as well as The Next
American City, Planning magazine, Planetizen, Citiwire.net, Architecture Boston, and
GlobalPost, and many other publications. In addition to contributing to the The
Boston Globe’s online commentary forum, The Angle, and This Land, a Community
Voices blog on urban design and public space, he is author of the Lincoln Institute
blog, At Lincoln House, and the blog Developing Stories, at the author's website. He
appeared at TEDx Tampa Bay in 2011 presenting on infrastructure and
neighborhoods. His next book, The Raven: The Story of Le Corbusier, Maker of the
Modern, a narrative nonfiction account of the father of modern architecture, will be
published by Amazon Publishing in 2014. Wrestling with Moses won a Christopher
Award in April 2010.
Board of Directors
President:
William Roth, Jr., AICP
Vice President:
Angus Jennings, AICP
Treasurer:
Michelle Buck, AICP
Clerk:
Megan DiPrete, AICP
Immediate Past President:
Evan Belansky
2nd
Past President:
Steve Costello, AICP
Legislative Chair:
D. Anthony Fields, AICP
CPTC Liaison:
Ralph Willmer, AICP
General Counsel:
Pamela J. Brown, Esq. AICP
Thanks to this year’s
Conference Sponsors:
www.macponline.org
www.hshassoc.com
www.brown‐brown‐pc.com
www.vhb.com