nick thorn @nickjthorn.com everyone deserves good design.
John Surico @johnsurico.bsky.social Building better cities for all. Exec dir, Friends of the QueensWay. Chair, 31st Ave Open Street Collective. Board, Alliance for Flushing Meadows. Prof-alum, NYU Journalism. New book soon w/Street Plans. Allora ✌️
Next City @nextcity.org Next City’s journalism centers marginalized voices while amplifying solutions to the problems that oppress people in cities.
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Justin Tyndall @justintyndall.bsky.social Associate Prof of Economics. University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.
Research on: Cities 🏙 | Transportation 🚶🚲🚇🚗 | Housing 🏘
Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social Public transit planning consultant and commentator. Author of the book “Human Transit” and the blog HumanTransit.org. The consulting firm is jarrettwalker.com. Also obsessed with literature and plants.
Peter Norton @norton.bsky.social Historian; author of Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City, and of Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving.
Streetsblog Chicago @chi.streetsblog.org The region's sustainable transportation news and advocacy website, helping to make the city and suburbs better since 2013. Posts: @johngreenfield.bsky.social (unsigned) and @stevevance.net.
Streetopia Upper West Side @streetopia.bsky.social Streets are for people, not cars. We inspire and organize our neighbors on Manhattan's Upper West Side to realize the potential of streets and public space to improve health, increase opportunity, and connect each of us to our community. streetopia.city
🚇 Riders Alliance @ridersalliance.org A 501(c)(4) organization of NYC bus and subway riders, winning better public transit by organizing riders into a powerful constituency.
Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org The only website devoted to covering all the livable streets and public space news you need. Visit us at http://nyc.streetsblog.org. Retweets/posts are NOT endorsements.
Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social Pedestrian
Reporting at The Urbanist as Contributing Editor
Transportation advocate
Probably covering a random public meeting
(they-them)
📍Puget Sound
https://www.patreon.com/typewriteralley
Sophia Lebowitz @sophlebo.bsky.social Reporter @ Streetsblog NYC
Email: sophia@streetsblog.org, Signal: sophialebowitz.14
I also make documentaries: https://www.sophialebowitz.com/film
Stefanos Chen @stefanoschen.bsky.social NYT reporter covering New York's transit systems. I snoop on Greek convos.
Effective Transit Alliance @etany.org ETA advocates for high-quality, accessible, and forward-looking transit through internationally-inspired, technically-oriented analysis in greater New York.
Paul Williams @pewilliams.bsky.social Executive director, Center for Public Enterprise (publicenterprise.org)
Brooklyn, NY
Rebecca Baird-Remba @thecitywanderer.bsky.social Writing about financial markets for @risk.net, and occasionally other things. recovering real estate and architecture reporter. bike girl about town
Alex Armlovich @aarmlovi.bsky.social Housing Program Officer, Abundance & Growth Fund @ CG | Sr. Fellow @niskanencenter🏗️ | Urban Econ 🌐🔰🚋 | @worksinprogress contributor | @opennyforall member | @yimbytown alum | former @cbcny |
Legalize housing. Tax land. End poverty with cash
David Edmondson @thegreatermarin.bsky.social Urban planner, specializing in transportation, but posts a helluva lot about indigenous political cartography. aka theGreaterMarin. Find me as @OctaviusIV elsewhere, too. DC and SF.
Daddy Shark @daddyshark.bsky.social Formerly @dotahype on Twitter. Love my 2 girls! Enjoyer of urbanism, welfare liberalism🧦, econ, generative AI, nature and shitposts.
BA for life insurance living in Brooklyn 🇺🇸
Matthew Johnson @seasouthern.bsky.social Parent. Partner. Queer. RA. South Alabamian in South Seattle. Urbanist. Transit Advocate. He/Him or They/Them. #WDE #EBFG #CIB #OIF #OEF
Carol Armen 🗽⚖️📜🚫👑🪓 @carolarmenesq.bsky.social BS, MS, JD. Rtd. labor atty. Writer, researcher, autodidactic generalist. Spinoza-Watts pantheist, humanist, pragmatic optimist. Ally to all but sociopaths. Will challenge B&W thinking & oversimplification. Fan of creative problem-solving. Philly Proud.
David Alman @davidalman.bsky.social Airman + consultant + aero engineer interested in national strategy, domestic policy, environmentalism, good food, and all things aviation. Views = mine alone and not representative of anyone I work for. #airpower
Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net #Climate & sea level science + policy. Rutgers University. All views my own. www.bobkopp.net
Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org Economist at @epi.org
https://www.epi.org/people/ben-zipperer/
JamesMathews @jamesmathews.bsky.social #ClimateCrisis #Anti-Fascist #Ukraine #BLM #LGBQT+ #NativeAmericans #Science, ex-Twitter, HR consultant/workplace investigator/PI, ex-DOD contractor, husband/father/grandfather, Air Force brat, NBA addict in Las Vegas via Los Angeles & Portland.
Ryan C. Smith @rcsmitheco.bsky.social History prof. Author of, "The Real Oil Shock: How Oil Transformed Money, Debt, and Finance". Economic historian, writing at the Spark
https://the-spark.ghost.io/
Also published in Liberal Currents, OilPrice.com, and the New Republic.
Jonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social “woke” is “the belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them.”
- Ron DeSantis' attorney (finally got one right)
https://www.raceclasspodcast.com/
Junko Yoshida @junko-paris.bsky.social journalist, loves writing, cooking and painting
Southwest Review @southwestreview.bsky.social Dallas, TX | Quarterly print mag and weekly content online | www.southwestreview.com
David Martin Burrows @dmburrows.bsky.social Working on being a better human. Entrepreneur into film, environment, tech, startups, wellness, and bees Hivessence.com & Arkearth.org #democracy & #freedom for all
The Bulwark @thebulwark.com Political analysis and reporting free of tribal prejudices. Sign up for our newsletters here: https://thebulwark.com/subscribe
Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social I publish the @quittingcarbon.bsky.social newsletter. Subscribe: https://www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/. Former Managing Editor, Energy Monitor. Send story ideas or tips: justingerdes@gmail.com or Signal: JustinGerdes.85
@forsythsgambit.bsky.social @forsythsgambit.bsky.social
Hope Davis @hopedaviswrites.bsky.social Independent journalist focused on housing and homelessness. Words @shelterforce, @nextcity, @inthesetimes
Signal: Hope_Davis.87
https://hopedavis.journoportfolio.com/
Jeff Salamon @jeffsalamon.bsky.social Father, husband, jack of some trades, executive editor at Texas Monthly. (Opinions don't necessarily reflect those of my employer.)
nitasha tiku @nitasha.bsky.social technology mother @ the washington post. baddie in the digital badlands. signal: nitasha.10
Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com Senior editor at The Atlantic.
www.mrdanzak.com
End Political Homelessness Now @raaleh.bsky.social Board Game Entrepreneur. Hosts @trashfuture.bsky.social, @nogodsnomayors.com, @gluefactory.bsky.social
Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social Architecture critic @theglobeandmail.com. Also author, @utoronto.ca Daniels Faculty instructor, husband, father of two city kids.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/authors/alex-bozikovic/
Gareth Harding @garethbxl.bsky.social Brussels-based writer, journalism lecturer and media trainer.
Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social Freelance writing about the wild, old and dead. Bylines in NatGeo, SciAm, The New York Times, Texas Monthly, and many other places. Repped by @desir.ee at Looking Glass Literary (fiction) and @benglishhh.bsky.social at Transatlantic (nonfiction)
Mike Christensen, MCMP, CNU-A, AICP @mrc-slc.bsky.social Executive Director of the http://UtahRPA.org, home of @LinkUtah.org. Member of @cnunewurbanism.bsky.social, @strongtowns.org, and @railpassengers.org.
Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social finance, energy, climate, geopolitics, industrial policy
@thepolycrisis.bsky.social
in Australia -> DMs hard to retrieve, best to email
Beth Zeitler @ezeitler.bsky.social Energy Facts, Analysis, and Policy. Associate Director at the National Academies Board on Energy and Environmental Systems. I used to have hobbies, now I have kids. That was meant to be funny, so adding an exclamation point/emoji so you get the vibe! 😁
Streetsblog L.A. @streetsblogla.bsky.social The Los Angeles vanguard of the Streetsblog publishing empire https://la.streetsblog.org/
America Walks @americawalks.bsky.social Everyone should be able to move around their community with dignity and freedom. We are a national non-profit supporting change and changemakers at every level. Americawalks.org
Perry Clitheroe 🔰 @pearberr.bsky.social 🏠 Activist focused on the housing crisis & urban development.
📊 Economics & politics enthusiast. Future policy leader?
⚾️ Dodgers & Lakers Fan
🏀 You can find me at the park getting double doubles
I love nature, science, and beautiful skies!
Kelly Macnamara @kellymacnamara.bsky.social Climate and environment correspondent @AFP
Previously ➡️ Hong Kong ➡️ Yangon ➡️ Bangkok
Co-founder @kitetalesMM non-profit Myanmar storytelling project
Solivagant Eileen @myrna38717.bsky.social Pedestrian rights advocate. Aging non-driving/walking/public transit user. Atheist. Retired Lawyer. Ukulele.
Noah Greifer @noahgreifer.bsky.social Statistical consultant and programmer at Harvard IQSS. Author/maintainer of the #Rstats packages 'MatchIt', 'WeightIt', and 'cobalt' for causal inference, among many others | He/him
ngreifer.github.io
Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social A new communications-focussed collaboration launched to champion the truth and fight disinformation about how to make better cities for people. Formed by @brenttoderian.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social @grantennis.bsky.social.
www.UrbanTruthCollective.com
Norm Van Eeden Petersman @normvep.bsky.social I am an advocate for resilient, people-centered communities and serve as the Director of Membership at Strong Towns.
Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social Climate and Community Institute is a progressive climate and economy think tank. We work with movements and progressive policy makers to pass new policy, improve implementation, shift narratives, and deepen coalitions. 🌱 http://www.climateandcommunity.org
Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social I ride my bike, get angry at drivers, talk about disability advocacy, eat baked goods, and make sure Gus is well fed. I hail from the best state in New England.
Alex Wolford @thetexanrhino.bsky.social Writing about Transportation, Trains, and Sometimes Other Stuff. Higher Ed and Health Reporter at @comissourian.bsky.social. Bylines at @DMagazine.bsky.social
Dallas, TX | Columbia, MO
https://linktr.ee/TheTexanRhino
Just Futures Law @justfutureslaw.bsky.social We're a movement lawyering org working with grassroot organizers to dismantle the deportation machine with innovative legal and policy strategies. Learn more: www.justfutureslaw.org
Kate Lowe (she/hers) @kateontransport.bsky.social Mobility justice/transportation equity/urban planning and policy. Chicago!!! Proud union member (UIC United Faculty). Day job @ @uiccuppa.bsky.social
A. Zivarts @nondriver.bsky.social Author, When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency
low vision (#nystagmus), bus lover, bike rider
annazivarts.com
#WeekWithoutDriving weekwithoutdriving.org
Nondrivers Alliance nondrivers.org (c3)
Nondriver Action ndaction.org (c4)
RJI @rjionline.bsky.social RJI: The Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute is a world-class center for researching and testing new models of journalism.
Cathy Tuttle @cathytuttle.bsky.social I plan cities for people & other living things. I focus on SEA, PDX, Utrecht, women who create cities, bikes, climate. I'm on Boards @bikeloudpdx.bsky.social @streetsalliance.bsky.social & volunteer @ BikeFlip + DeFietsmeesters in Utrecht. She/her. PhD
Robert Wilonsky @robertwilonsky.bsky.social Editorial columnist at The Dallas Morning News. Writing about Dallas.
Daniel Bowen @danielbowen.au Transport blogger / public transport advocate / campaigner and spokesperson for @ptua.org.au / professional geek. Opinions are all mine.
Bunurong land, Melbourne, Australia
Campaign for Better Transport @bettertransport.bsky.social We are the national charity that champions greener, fairer transport.
Find out more at: bettertransport.org.uk
Bikeability @bikeabilityuk.bsky.social Providing the skills to build confidence through cycling, Bikeability is the DfT's national cycle training scheme for children across England.
Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk Transport and urban planning stuff. I run sustainable transport and environmental justice non-profits: @transportgood.org @transportfornewhomes.org.uk
Can also be found:
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International Institute for Sustainable Development @iisd.org An award-winning independent think tank for sustainable solutions. Focused on climate, nature & economies.
Get the latest #sustdev news: http://bit.ly/2w12V4K
Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social Environmental psychologist: transport, energy, water, buildings. "Woke scientist" (Daily Mail). Head of Psychology, Swansea University 🏴. Charity trustee x2. @locastproject.bsky.social My views
World Record-breaking cyclist drianwalker.com
Søren Have @sorenhave.dk Mobility and Infrastructure Lead at green think tank CONCITO.
Living in Frederiksberg, Denmark.
M.Sc. & PhD (math).
Follow me if you are into climate action, transport/mobility and related areas. Here I write mostly in English, but occasionally in Danish.
Women in Mobility @womeninmobility.bsky.social #Mobility #Future #Urbanization | Community for women working in the mobility sector |🇩🇪 🇪🇺 www.womeninmobility.org
Philip Thalis @philipthalis.bsky.social Architect, urbanist, public advocate. Principal @HillThalisAUP co author #PublicSydney Book & Puzzle. Architecture Prof. ex Sydney Ind Councillor. Aust Arch Gold🥇2024
On Gadigal country
Indian Urbanism @indianurbanist.bsky.social Progressive Urbanism thoughts related to India || Slums || Transit || Cycling || Pedestrians || Housing Shortage || Rental Discrimination || Climate Change ||
London Cycling Campaign @londoncycling.bsky.social 🚲 Registered charity with 20,000+ members & supporters making cycling in London safe everywhere and fun for everyone.
International Federation of Pedestrians @ifpedestrians.bsky.social The International Federation of Pedestrians promotes and defends the pedestrian's right to full access and mobility.
https://www.linkedin.com/company/ifpedestrians
www.Ifpedestrians.org
Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social Hackney-based. Advocating for cycling that’s as safe, convenient, and comfortable as it is in the Netherlands. I share my own media of Dutch street life, hoping to inspire more liveable communities everywhere.
Kent Lundberg @kentlundberg.bsky.social Sustainable transport and car optional cities. I lead a small company focused on public transport, urban design, parking reform and investment advice. Auckland, New Zealand.
Urban Cycling Institute @urbancyclinginstitute.org Professional Development | Knowledge Transfer | Strategic Advising
Our mission is to serve, teach, and inspire current and future urban professionals in our quest for actionable steps towards safe, inclusive, active mobility.
Greg Vann @gregvann.bsky.social Australian urbanist at large based in Brisbane, 46+ years experience. Founder Urban Mentors Collective. Co founder Ethos Urban, President Queensland Walks. Keen to make cities better and to help those who want to do that.
Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social Global advisor on better cities, city planning, transportation & urban change. City planner + urbanist leading @ToderianUW.bsky.social. Past Chief Planner for Vancouver BC. Past/founding President of @CanUrbanism.bsky.social. International speaker & media.
David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social Thinking, writing, and speaking about transport, cities, and tech. Contributing Writer @ Bloomberg and cohost @ Look Both Ways w/David & Wes. Working on a book about congestion pricing. linktr.ee/davidzipper
Newsletter & contact info: www.davidzipper.com
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.
Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social Strategy/Creative/Content/Branding @ rovélo creative. Lectures on reframing the mainstream narrative around road safety, cities and mobility.
Devout follower of Jesus and Mary Chain
Creativebyrovelo.com
Satirical news at The Rovélo Record
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
David Roberts @volts.wtf I run a newsletter/podcast called Volts about clean energy & politics. Subscribe & join the community at http://volts.wtf!
@trans1t0ry-distro.bsky.social @trans1t0ry-distro.bsky.social pluralist, amateur writer, diverse intelligence & jungian enthusiast, nerd, bb urbanist in training
Garrett Pennell @garrettpennell.bsky.social I’m on the board of Dallas Bicycle Coalition and support pretty much every urbanist thing in Dallas that I can.
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Hexel @hexel.dallasurbanists.org Creator & Director of @DallasUrbanists.org
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YIMBY Action @yimbyaction.bsky.social 70+ Chapters across the US fighting for abundant housing that's inclusive, sustainable, and affordable.
Strong Towns @strongtowns.org We're changing *everything* about the North American pattern of development. Become a member today! strongtowns.org/membership
Nathaniel Barrett @ncoxbarrett.bsky.social Dallas developer, urban orchardist, cargo bike rider, parking reformer. Building a better Dallas, one lot at a time.
patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social Cities for choice in housing, neighborhood, transpo; universal access, opportunity & upward mobility.
Prof of Sustainable Development @SMU; Board of Directors Dallas Area Rapid Transit; Founder: THE.City & the American Dream
NCTCOG Transportation @nctcogtrans.bsky.social Official page of the North Central Texas Council of Governments Transportation Department dedicated to maintaining a continual dialogue about transportation and air quality in DFW.
Dallas Area Transit Alliance @ridewithdata.org Fighting for affordable, accessible, and reliable public transit for the continually growing Dallas area. DATA is not affiliated with DART, or any other transit agency.
https://ridewithdata.org/
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