Upstream Timeout @shawnmicallef.bsky.social Local tosser
Books author (New: Stroll!)
Toronto Star column writer
Spacing Magazine co-founder
U of T instructor
Trying to do it a bit different here than the last place.
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Cameron Maltby @cameronmaltby.bsky.social Architect AIBC. Urbanism, streets for people. North Vancouver, BC. 🚲🏳️🌈 Born 317.12 ppm
Jocelyn Lambert Squires @jocelynsquires.bsky.social Toronto-centric voice for architecture and urbanism. Transit nerd. Recovering American. Research, writing, bikes, architect-adjacent. (EN/FR, she/her/elle)
Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com Graphic artist, M.Des. — Art direction. Documentary photography. Publication design. The media of design, architecture, and “smart” cities. Invited to Harvard GSD, McGill, and UQAM — michelechampagne.com
Bike Ottawa @bikeottawa.bsky.social Supporting access for people who want to ride bikes and have safe streets
Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social Award-winning 🇬🇾 🇨🇦 Political Economist. Columnist. Law & Order historian. Reality TV veteran. Talking my shit @badandbitchy.com
Never forget 👉🏾 I will be vindicated.
Derrick Simpson @derricksimpson.bsky.social Transportation and Board Chair, Centretown Community Association | Carleton Journalism Grad | Ottawa Urbanism Book Club | Board @strongtownsottawa.bsky.social| Substack: Improving Ottawa
FuzzyWuzzy in Toronto🇨🇦 @fuzzywuzzyto.bsky.social Equality, Socialism, Science, Environment, Animals, Trains! Colonial Settler. He/him. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @thesidewalkballet.bsky.social ⚪The economy of cities⚪Short block grid⚪3mph urban design
https://frankkevinmurphy.blogspot.com
"Lively diverse intense cities contain seeds of their own regeneration with energy enough to carry over for problems and needs outside themselves” Jane Jacobs
Miranda Gray @mirgray.bsky.social Ottawa Canada tweets; inclusive, smart city, data driven, transit, aunt, @BB4Radio podcast fan, she / her
Mastodon: @Mirgray@mstdn.ca
Living on unceded Algonquin Land, (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
Peter Coffman @petercoffman.bsky.social Retired 🇨🇦 architectural historian. https://carleton.ca/aah/people/peter-coffman/ Photographer. Pilgrim. Occasionally a writer. Chief of Staff to two cats. Photos mine unless otherwise credited.
Ariel Troster @arieltroster.com Running for reelection as City Councillor for #SomersetWard in Ottawa. Queer Jew. A better city is possible. Let’s build it together. 🏳️🌈
Lloyd Alter @lloydalter.bsky.social Author of"The Story of Upfront Carbon," reformed architect and developer, teacher of sustainable design at Toronto Metropolitan University. https://lloydalter.substack.com
Stefan Novakovic @novakovicto.bsky.social Writer + Editor | Architecture + Cities | Toronto + Elsewhere
kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net Unheil-bringer. lithium prince. architecture critic @thenation.com
my blogs are https://late-review.com, https://wehwalt.net and mcmansionhell.com
she/they
Carolyn Whitzman @cwhitzman.bsky.social Senior housing researcher, University of Toronto School of Cities. Author, “Clara at the Door with a Revolver”(2023), “Home Truths: Fixing Canada’s Housing Crisis” ( 2024).
Neil Saravanamuttoo @neilsara.bsky.social Ottawa Mayoral Candidate
Substack: the 613
Podcast: Better Ottawa
cleber figueiredo @cleberfig.bsky.social good cities for all
crfig.myportfolio.com
from Centretown ottawa, canada
Ecology Ottawa @ecologyottawa.bsky.social Working to make Ottawa the green capital of Canada 🌿 Nous nous efforçons de faire d’Ottawa la capitale verte du Canada.
www.ecologyottawa.ca | info@ecologyottawa.ca
New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social Reviews architecture, in New York.
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James Taite @jamestaite.bsky.social Stonemason in Ottawa, Canada.
The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social A podcast about the fight against car culture. Hosted by Sarah Goodyear & Doug Gordon.
Our new book, "Life After Cars" is out now.
https://www.lifeaftercars.com/
https://www.patreon.com/thewaroncarspod
The Urbanist @theurbanist.org Advocacy journalism for better cities.👩🦽👨🦯🚶🚴♀️ 🚎 ⛴️ 🚊 🚆 🏙️
Based in the Seattle metro area.
Read our coverage on theurbanist.org. 📰
Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social "Fietser" (Dutch) 'feet-ser' Meaning: A Person Who Bikes For Transportation; Infrastructure, City Design, E-Cargo Bike Ambassador, Brasil 🇧🇷🔗, Train & Aviation Enjoyer
Bryn Davidson - Lanefab @lanefab.com A beautiful home
in a healthy city on
a thriving planet
Lanefab Design / Build
Oori Architecture
B.Eng M.Arch
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Vancouver BC
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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com Author of Straphanger, Shanghai Grand, Lost Supper
Words: NYTimes NatGeo Smithsonian
⬇️ Train travel + politics of transit ⬇️
https://www.highspeed.blog
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IG: https://www.instagram.com/taras.rides.trains/
Sean Galbraith @plannersean.bsky.social Urban planning shit posting, disc golf, assorted other nonsense and garbage. @plannersean on Twitter 
Jay Pitter @jaypitter.bsky.social Award-Winning Placemaker (25+ North American Cities). Author. Speaker. Urban Planning Adjunct Professor. Subdivided Co-Editor. Two Book Deal w/ Penguin Random House Canada. Hip Hop & a lil Punk Rock. Hopeful.
Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social Editorial cartoonist for the Globe and Mail and the Hill Times.
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Oliver Moore @oliver-moore.bsky.social Deviant pedestrian. I’m bullish on cities, opposed to fascism and write editorials for The Globe and Mail. Never 51. @moore_oliver at the bird site, which I've mostly left. Will try to respond via omoore@globeandmail.ca. Header pic by Mervyn Sequeira
Mathieu Fleury @matfleury.bsky.social City leader - a healthy and green🌳 Capital in a vibrant #ottawa with more housing🏘.
Fier papa et #ONFR
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Joel Harden @joelharden.bsky.social Organizing to be an NDP MP for Ottawa Centre. Choose love, and make good trouble.
MVRDV @mvrdv.bsky.social 🌍 International architecture and urbanism office
💡 We create happy and adventurous places
📍 Rotterdam | Shanghai | Paris | Berlin | NYC
TODERIAN UrbanWORKS Inc. (TUW) @toderianuw.bsky.social TODERIAN UrbanWORKS Inc. (TUW) is a Vancouver-based national and international city planning/design, mobility and "advanced urbanism" consultancy led by @BrentToderian.bsky.social.
Azure Magazine @azuremagazine.bsky.social AZURE is an award-winning magazine with a focus on contemporary architecture and design. Launched in 1985.
James Case @jamescasenl.bsky.social Writer / published author of historical fiction (Ananias: Nevermore Press and Vicory: Merlin Star Press), architect, lover of Wolfhounds, blues / folk musician, news / political junkie.
https://www.jamescaseauthor.com/
Winnipeg Architecture Foundation @wpgarch.bsky.social The Winnipeg Architecture Foundation (WAF) is a registered charitable organisation advancing the awareness and appreciation of Winnipeg's built environment. www.winnipegarchitecture.ca
Parkways For People @parkwaysforpeople.bsky.social Putting the Park back in Parkways🌱
Reimagining the Parkways for everyone.
Ottawa,Canada
info@parkwaysforpeople.ca
Lucy van Oldenbarneveld @lucyvanolden.bsky.social Principal at Lucy van Oldenbarneveld Communications/ Former Host CBC Ottawa News at 6:00/Moderator/MC/Media Trainer/Stratgist
Ontario Association of Architects @oaarchitects.bsky.social Founded in 1889, the OAA is the regulatory body that serves and protects the public interest by overseeing the architectural profession in Ontario, as mandated by the Architects Act.
More Neighbours Toronto @moreneighboursto.bsky.social Toronto's pro-housing movement.
More Neighbours in more neighbourhoods, with access to more jobs, more infrastructure, and more culture than ever before.
Make Housing Affordable @makehousingaffordable.ca Ottawa must be a world-class city for everyone. Let's build more homes, welcome more neighbours, and build a better Ottawa!
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
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Architects' Journal @news.architectsjournal.co.uk The UK’s leading professional architecture magazine | Always #RetroFirst | IBP Editorial Brand of the Year 2020, 2021 and 2023
www.architectsjournal.co.uk
Spacing Store @spacingstore.bsky.social SpacingStore.ca
401 Richmond St W, near Queen & Spadina
Open Tue-Sat 11-6 and Sun 12-5. Closed Mon.
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It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social Ottawa municipal issues, data analysis, transportation, urbanism, history, bike videos, candidate for city councillor! 🚲👶🌳
Ottawa, Ontario
Gil Penalosa @penalosag.bsky.social Founder 8 80 Cities • Worked in over 350 cities • NEW keynotes & workshops on how CITIES can make HEALTHY & HAPPY LIVING the easy choice • Book Gil • Infra + Policy + Programs • Children • Olders • Top 100 urbanist (13).
Robin Mazumder, Ph.D @robinmazumder.bsky.social Environmental neuroscientist with the Future Cities Institute exploring the complex interactions between who we are, where we live, and how we function as a society. Speaker. Writer. Mental health advocate. Human. linktr.ee/robinmazumder
Occasional Transpo @occtranspo.bsky.social Ottawa 🇨🇦 • LRT status updates and municipal commentary and advocacy. https://OccasionalTransport.ca
It takes a village to push a train.
OC Transpo is Occasional Transportation.
Theresa Kavanagh Bay Ward @tkavanaghbayward.bsky.social Bay Ward City Councillor, Ottawa Community Housing Board Chair, former OCDSB Trustee, former hill staffer, current triathlete & runner and loyal cat servant.
Glen Gower @glengower.ca City Councillor in Stittsville, one of the most exciting suburbs *in the world*
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(Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
Sean Devine @seandevine9.bsky.social Candidate for City Councillor for Ward 9. Proud husband and father of 4. Singer in a garage band.
Sarah Gelbard @gelbard.ca Punk planner and anarchitect | Housing justice, radical planning, and community care | Adjunct Prof, University of Ottawa | Contact instructor, Carleton U | firstgen scholar | tenant | bassist | she/her
Ottawa, Canada
previously @sbg_arch on 🐦
Ted Landrum @tedlandrum.bsky.social Teacher Critic Artist Archi-Poet |
UbuLoca | Midway Radicals | Human Earthling | Into Ideas Art Film Theatre Poetry Architecture & Peace for All
(living and learning in Tkaronto) #verify this https://www.ubuloca.com/2022/05/poetry-is-in-everything.html
John Lorinc @johnlorinc.bsky.social Toronto journalist & editor. Contributor to Globe & Mail, Toronto Star, Corporate Knights, Walrus, Spacing. Co-editor: Messy Cities (Coach House, 2025). Author: No Jews Live Here, A Memoir. https://chbooks.com/Books/N/No-Jews-Live-Here.
Happy Cities @happycities.com We build happier, healthier, more inclusive communities. Focus: learning + solutions around cities, wellbeing, & social trust.
Let's chat: info@happycities.com
Penny Collenette, C.M., O.Ont. @penottaw.bsky.social Member of Order of Canada and Order of Ontario. Board director . Lawyer. Educator. Politico. Previously, Sr.Director, Prime Minister’s Office; Sr.Fellow, Kennedy School, VP, Chair’s Office, George Weston Ltd, Adjunct Prof. , UOttawa.
Heather Mallick @hmallick.bsky.social
Canadian news columnist formerly CBC, newspapers, magazines etc. author, feminist, bookish person, centre-left. @heathermallick.substack
Laine Johnson @lainejohnson.bsky.social Candidate for re-election as Councillor for College Ward in the City of Ottawa.
Jeff Leiper 🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈 @jleiper.bsky.social Running to be the next mayor of Ottawa to build a city that works.
Candidat à la mairie d'Ottawa pour bâtir une ville qui fonctionne.
leiper2026.ca
Shawn Menard @shawnmenard.bsky.social Running for City Council in Capital Ward 17. I care first and foremost about improving quality of life for residents.
Rawlson King @rawlson.bsky.social Ottawa City Councillor for Rideau-Rockcliffe Ward
Conseiller municipal d'Ottawa pour le quartier Rideau-Rockcliffe
@rideaurockcliffe13.bsky.social
Tim Tierney @timtierney.ca City Councillor Ottawa
VP FCM
Chair, Public Work and Infrastructure
#1 NICKELBACK fan
Stéphanie Plante @stephanieplante.bsky.social Conseillère pour le district 12 Rideau-Vanier
Councillor for Ward 12 Rideau-Vanier
Antonio Gomez-Palacio @aurbanist.bsky.social Chair of DIALOG
www.dialogdesign.ca
Greg MacEachern @gregmaceachern.bsky.social Nova Scotian in Ottawa. Comms guy: crisis, govt and otherwise. I talk about politics on CBC's Power and Politics with David Cochrane, the Arlene Bynon Show etc. Former municipal/provincial/federal advisor, two national elections East Coast media/advance
Catherine McKenney @catmckenney.bsky.social Ontario NDP Shadow Minister for Housing and MPP for Ottawa Centre.
Passionate about housing, transit, healthcare, and community.
Trans/non-binary.
Mario Carlucci @luccidor.bsky.social CBC Ottawa
Here for:
The news.
The food.
The fun.
Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social 🌱 CEO, Climate & Nature Solutions; Chair UN Net Zero.
🇨🇦Former Minister of Environment & Climate
🏃♀️Author, Run Like a Girl
Order your copy today ⬇️
www.catherinemckenna.ca
📩 contact@climateandnature.com
Stephane OCH @stephaneoch.bsky.social Building Homes, Communities and Better Outcomes
CEO Ottawa Community Housing
@alexcullen.bsky.social @alexcullen.bsky.social 
Lake Superior @lakesuperior.bsky.social I am the greatest lake of all time. G.L.O.A.T. (she/her) #BigBeautifulWater 
Brigitte Pellerin @brigittepellerin.bsky.social Writer, Ottawa Citizen columnist. Fighting toxicity for fun and profit. J’écris en français aussi des fois. https://www.brigittepellerin.com/
Canadian Urban Institute @canurb.bsky.social 
Brent Bellamy @brentbellamy.bsky.social Architect | Number TEN Architectural Group
Columnist | Architecture+City Building - Winnipeg Free Press
Vivre en Ville @vivreenville.bsky.social Vivre en Ville mobilise la société et les collectivités, pour ainsi ouvrir la voie à la transformation de nos territoires et de nos milieux de vie qu’exigent les nécessaires transitions écologiques et sociales. 
Pembina Institute @pembina.org Leading Canada's transition to clean energy. We are a donor-supported charity and think tank. Support our work ➡️ pembina.org/donate
Placemaking Canada @placemaking-canada.bsky.social Founded in 2015. A cross-country collective working on placemaking and public space advocacy.
placemaking-canada.ca
Zoe Coombes @zoecoombes.bsky.social Toronto, yo.
Tell me about single stair buildings, skylit mezzanines, on-street trash containerization, small elevators, life / safety review, windows in bathrooms, zero lot line buildings- all the things that feel seemingly perfectly impossible. 🙏
Conrad Speckert @conradspeckert.bsky.social Building code, multiplexes, missing middle and mid-rise housing <www.singlestair.ca>
The Journal of Architecture @thejoa.bsky.social The RIBA's peer-reviewed architecture journal. Published by Taylor & Francis |
www.thejournalofarchitecture.com & www.tandfonline.com/journals/rjar20 |
EiC @deljana.bsky.social
C40 Cities @c40cities.bsky.social A network of city mayors delivering urgent climate solutions. Protecting the people and places we love. 🌳🌍🌆💚
http://www.c40.org/
Kim Storey @kstorey.bsky.social Architect and urban designer with Brown and Storey Architects
Journal of Urbanism @journalurbanism.bsky.social Journal of Urbanism: International research on placemaking & urban sustainability. Published four times a year by Routledge.
Also @JournalUrbanism@mas.to on Mastodon
And @JournalUrbanism on X-twitter
Women in Mobility @womeninmobility.bsky.social #Mobility #Future #Urbanization | Community for women working in the mobility sector |🇩🇪 🇪🇺 www.womeninmobility.org
Congress for the New Urbanism @cnunewurbanism.bsky.social CNU envisions a world where cities, towns, and neighborhoods are intentionally designed and managed to foster community, preserve the natural environment, and improve the lives of all people.
Learn more: cnu.org
CNU 34: May 12-16, 2026! cnu.org/cnu34
Urban Institute @urbaninstitute.bsky.social The Urban Institute is a research-to-impact institution founded on one simple idea: To improve lives and strengthen communities, we need practices and policies that work.
Kelly Alvarez Doran @kellyalvarezdoran.bsky.social Co-Founder of halfclimatedesign.com
Jennifer Keesmaat @jenniferkeesmaat.bsky.social 
Project for Public Spaces @ppsplacemaking.bsky.social We bring community-powered public spaces to life through #placemaking, social impact partnerships, events, & training. Join us for the 5th Int'l Placemaking Week June 24-26 in Detroit, MI! www.pps.org
Not Just Bikes 🇳🇱 @notjustbikes.com W Social 🇪🇺 account for the creator of "Not Just Bikes" and "The Urbanist Agenda Podcast", and host of the public transit travel show "Day Pass" on Nebula. Based in Amsterdam.
notjustbikes.com
daypasstravel.com
urbanistagenda.com
social.notjustbikes.com
Next City @nextcity.org Next City’s journalism centers marginalized voices while amplifying solutions to the problems that oppress people in cities.
Women in Urbanism Canada @womenurbanismca.bsky.social A women-led community working to transform Canadian cities into more equitable, enjoyable, and sustainable places for everyone. ✨🌆
www.WomenInUrbanism.ca
#Feminism #Urbanism
Ottawa Citizen @ottawacitizen.com The biggest daily in the nation's capital.
Lowertown Community Association @ourlowertown.bsky.social Dedicated to sharing news and ideas about Lowertown East and West, and the ByWard Market, and prone to occasional moments of cheekiness. 
Ottawa Public Health @ottawapublichealth.ca Ottawa’s source for health information, programs & services. Building a healthy community through prevention, protection & promotion.
FR: @santepubliqueottawa.ca
www.OttawaPublicHealth.ca
Français = @ottawasante.bsky.social
National Capital Commission @ncc-ccn.gc.ca Official feed for the National Capital Commission. Building a capital that inspires Canadians.
@mark-sutcliffe.bsky.social @mark-sutcliffe.bsky.social 
FCM @fcm.ca The Federation of Canadian Municipalities has been the national voice of municipal government since 1901. #CDNMuni
La Fédération canadienne des municipalités est la voix nationale des gouvernements municipaux depuis 1901. #munican
🖥️ fcm.ca
Liz Renzetti @lizrenzetti.bsky.social Author, journalist. New book: What She Said: Conversations About Equality. Quill & Packet mysteries with Kate Hilton. Bury the Lead (2024); Widows and Orphans (2025) Linktree: https://linktr.ee/lizrenzetti