At a time of soaring energy prices and disturbing news about global warming, communities across the country are embracing what is rapidly becoming a new environmental agenda: more concentrated, mixed-use settlement. But as town centers and downtowns are revitalized, and new development is arranged more compactly, urbanism has become pricey. How can booming communities building wisely ensure a level of affordability? Anthony Flint of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, author of This Land: The Battle over Sprawl and the Future of America (Johns Hopkins University Press), details strategies ranging from workforce transit-oriented housing to inclusionary zoning. Pursuit of the triple bottom line -- economically viable, environmentally sustainable and equitable -- has become the central challenge of the smart growth and New Urbanism movements.

ANTHONY FLINT has been a journalist for 20 years, primarily at The Boston Globe, where he covered planning and development, transportation and architecture, and had a weekly column on urban design and public space. His articles and essays have appeared in Planning, Landscape Architecture, Architectural Record and the Boston Sunday Globe Magazine. He was a visiting scholar at the Harvard Design School in 2005 while writing This Land: The Battle over Sprawl and the Future of America (Johns Hopkins University Press). A graduate of Middlebury College, Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and a Loeb Fellow at Harvard, he served for nearly a year at the Office for Commonwealth Development, the state agency in Massachusetts that coordinates housing, transportation, energy and the environment, and is now public affairs manager at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, a think-tank based in Cambridge, Mass. Read his writings at www.anthonyflint.net.

When	Sept 19, 2006 @ 6.30 pm
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