Nels Nelson @nelscity.bsky.social Urban planner in Boston. Housing supply, zoning, and land use at communityscale.com
Dylan Gottlieb @dygottlieb.bsky.social Historian of cities and capitalism || Author of YUPPIES (@harvardpress.bsky.social) II Co-host of @whomakescents.bsky.social II Rep'd by Alia Hanna Habib @thegernertco.bsky.social
neilgray00.bsky.social @neilgray00.bsky.social Writer and researcher based in Glasgow. Urban theory and politics, housing, miscellania. 'Take Over the City: Spatial Composition in Italian Autonomy' (forthcoming, 2026). https://www.commonnotions.org/buy/take-over-the-city
joe gerlach @joegerlach.bsky.social // geographer
// associate professor in cultural geography
// editorial board - Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
Rosa Luxemburg NYC @rosaluxnyc.bsky.social New York Office of @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social, focusing on US and Canada, the United Nations and Global South perspectives.
LSE Geography & Environment @lsegeography.bsky.social A centre of international academic excellence in economic and urban geography, urban planning, environmental social science and climate change.
Ranked 2nd globally in the QS World Subject Rankings 2026 🏆
Currently celebrating our 130th birthday! 🎉
Geography and Environment at Loughborough University @lborogeog.bsky.social 🎙️ News, updates, and all the great things happening in the Department of Geography and Environment at Loughborough University.
🏅 5th in the UK for Geography
👩🏽💻 Website: https://bit.ly/lborogeog
Jonny Darling @jonnydarling.bsky.social Urban and political geographer, Durham University. Trustee @naccomnetwork.bsky.social. Author of Systems of Suffering: Dispersal and the Denial of Asylum (Pluto Press).
Area @areajournal.bsky.social Area publishes concise papers and commentaries that shape key debates within and beyond the discipline of geography. Area is especially welcoming of work by early career researchers & awards an annual ECR prize.
RGS-IBG Higher Ed @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social The latest in geography higher education from the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG).
Tony Damiano @tonydamiano.bsky.social B+ dad, NE MPLS resident, and PhD housing researcher at the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs - University of Minnesota. Sports: Bucks, Packers, Hawkeyes and Marquette
Troy Brundidge 312/541 @teebeegeo.bsky.social UOregon/Dartmouth College economic geographer. Interested in marketization, solutionism, insurance and public finance, police, carceral & legal geographies, how we know. Very from Chicago. Mostly quoting things my son says.
Eoin Palmer @eoinpalmer.bsky.social Urban Geographer writing about land rent and real abstraction, build-to-rent housing and heritage under capitalism.
Edinburgh
He/Him
Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟 @waeiski.bsky.social 🧑🎓 Computational urban geographer & post-doc researcher interested in #GIScience #UrbanStudies #Multilingualism #Diversity #Mobility #Geography #BigData + #Linux.
💻 @digigeolab.bsky.social
🎓 @helsinki.fi
🌍 Helsinki, Finland
https://waeiski.github.io
Giorgia Mascaro @mascarina.bsky.social PhD candidate at University of Leicester | Aspiring urban geographer | Interested in Gentrification, Heritage & place-making, and Overtourism.
Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social Policy and Public Affairs at The Housing Forum. Interested in UK housing policy, planning, economics, housebuilding, energy, social policy. Views are my own. Cambridge based. https://housingforum.org.uk/
Rob Cowan @robcowan.bsky.social Writer, editor, speaker, consultant, cartoonist, illustrator. Author, The Dictionary of Urbanism. Editor, Context. Plandemonium videos. http://robcowan.co.uk
Tom Copley @tomcopley.bsky.social Deputy Mayor of London for Housing • Hon FRIBA • Former London Assembly Member • Former Lewisham councillor • Geriatric Millennial
Sophie Gonick @professorsophie.bsky.social urban studies prof at NYU. Currently studying migrant popular economies of housing and labor in NYC
eli knaap @knaaptime.com urban planning & public policy prof @ UC Irvine | core dev @ PySAL & QuantEcon | urban social science & spatial data science | open source
https://knaaptime.com
Mia Gray @mia-gray.bsky.social Professor of economic geography at the University of Cambridge. Researches austerity, labour, debt, gender & sustainable regional economies. Keen gardener.
Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social Professor at Sheffield University UK, geographer, feminist, photographer, + into all things environmental, esp. eco-housing + eco-communities. She/ her
www.jennypickerill.info 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social Thinking through infrastructure – energy, transport, water, waste, housing, health – with methods from the arts, humanities, & social sciences. https://researchcentres.citystgeorges.ac.uk/thinking-through-infrastructure-network
Bernadette Hanlon @bhanlonurban.bsky.social Professor City and Regional Planning at the Ohio State University | Editor-in-Chief Journal of Urban Affairs |
Tufts Dept of Urban and Environmental Policy & Planning @tuftsuep.bsky.social Offering @TuftsUniversity masters degrees and certificates, we are committed to engaged processes, and just and sustainable outcomes for cities and communities.
Nik Heynen @nik-heynen.bsky.social Geographer, University of Georgia | Spelman College | UGA's Cornelia Walker Bailey Program on Land, Sea and Agriculture | Shell to Shore | Birkley Heynen Environmental Foundation
https://linktr.ee/cornbreadheynen
David Kaufmann @kaufmada.bsky.social Assistant Professor, ETH Zürich, follow us @spurethz.bsky.social. I am researching and teaching policy and planning in and of the urban
Jon Reades @jreades.bsky.social Prof of Geographic Data Science & HoD @ CASA, UCL. Python, Housing, Neighbourhoods, Industrial location, and Text. Sometime DB, MTB & 🍄 nerd. Co-auth: “Why Face-to-Face still matters” (http://bit.ly/3cW5gSr)
Tommaso Vitale, Sciences Po, Urban School, CEE @tommasovitale.bsky.social Sociologist | Dean of Sciences Po Urban School | Researcher at the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE)
Active in fostering empirical and theoretical research and mentoring emerging scholars in urban sociology and public policy
Yimin Zhao @yiminzhao.bsky.social Assistant Professor @geogdurham.bsky.social | Editor @city-journal.bsky.social | Trustee @urbanstudiesfoundation.org
Personal website: readcities.com
微信公众号:城识 UrbanSense
Laura Wolf-Powers @wolf-powers.bsky.social Prof of urban policy and planning, CUNY Hunter College (not implicated in my posts). Currently thinking about how govt policy can discourage the private extraction of land rent. Proud supply skeptic.
Stefan Molnar @stefanmolnar.bsky.social Researcher in urban planning and design, quality of life and behaviour change.
Here for politics, art, culture, food and tech.
Based in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Constance Uyttebrouck @constanceu.bsky.social Researcher at LISER (Luxembourg) interested in (shared) housing provision (for young people), housing hyper-commodification, mixed-use development, live-work pathways, urban governance, institutional frameworks
H. Jacob Carlson @hjacobcarlson.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Kean University, Social Housing Development Authority, "Housing is a Social Good" (2026)-@UChicagoPress
https://www.hjacobcarlson.com/
Maurice Lange @mauricelange.bsky.social keen on there being more houses for everyone. crunching numbers and thinking about urban problems @centreforcities.bsky.social; community unionising @acornunion.bsky.social; other bits
Thessaloniki Tenants Union @enoikiasthess.bsky.social Tenants Union of Thessaloniki Metro Area- A Astrid Wood @astridwood.bsky.social Urban geographer @NCL Geography. Researches infrastructure, governance, transportation. Author of How Cities Learn (2022) & Why Transportation Fails (2025).
The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com New England's leading source for breaking news and analysis.
bostonglobe.com
Andrew Brinker @andrewbrinker.bsky.social Boston Globe housing reporter | writing about Massachusetts’ housing problem, and how we might fix it | fleeing Twitter.
LSE US Politics and Policy blog - USAPP @lseusablog.bsky.social Multi-disciplinary blog covering all aspects of USA governance, economics, politics, culture and society. Also covers Canada and Mexico. Part of the LSE Phelan United States Centre.
Read all our articles at https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/
Nick Revington @nickrevington.bsky.social Professeur adjoint / Assistant professor, INRS - Urbanisation Culture Société | Personne à chats / Cat person
Alison Wallace @alisonwyork.bsky.social Emeritus Professor, School of Business Society, University of York
Housing, shared ownership, homeownership, private renting, algorithmic technologies and housing, social policy
Bilge Serin @noxyin.bsky.social Dreaming to be somewhere by the sea.
Urbanist, reseacher, lecturer in Global Urbanism at @uofgussp.bsky.social
justcitymed.org
https://linktr.ee/bilgeserin
Eliot Tretter @eliottretter.bsky.social Associate Professor of Geography. University of Calgary. Author, Shadows of a Sunbelt City.
Leventhal Map & Education Center @bplmaps.bsky.social We use maps, geography, and history to understand the connection between people and places in Boston, New England, and beyond.
linktr.ee/bplmaps
ICTA-UAB @icta-uab.bsky.social Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB)
Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB)
http://www.uab.cat/icta
#BraveScienceForAChangingWorld
Vinita Goyal @vinita-goyal.bsky.social Facilitate community led visions towards fruition. Cross pollinate between the global North and South. Research, write, innovate. My Opinions!
https://www.vinita-goyal.com
Leila Baker @leilabaker.bsky.social
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy @landpolicy.bsky.social Seeking to improve quality of life through the effective use, taxation, and stewardship of land. Sign up for our digital magazine: https://go.lincolninst.edu/subscribe
Jen McArthur @jenmcarthur.bsky.social Infrastructure politics and finance. Associate Professor at UCL Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy
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.
Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social Professor of Urban Studies, King's College London; Editor Urban Studies. Part-time psychogeographer, landscape punk and walker.
Mara Ferreri @maraferreri.bsky.social Senior researcher in Urban & Housing Geography / Editor @radicalhousing.bsky.social / PI 'EnactDECOM' (ERC CoG) / housing decommodification / spatial justice /
Nick Blomley @nblomley.bsky.social Scholar of geography, property, law, colonialism, marginalization
Nitin Bathla @nitin-bathla.bsky.social Urban Studies Lecturer @ETH, Human Geog Postdoc @UZH. Debates and Interventions Editor @urbangeography.bsky.social Reviews Editor @urbanpolitical.bsky.social #politicalecology #infrastructure #transdisciplinarity #extendedurbanisation www.nitinbathla.com
Jason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social Canadian Urbanist and Chief Planner for the City of Toronto 🇨🇦
@danielle-mulligan.bsky.social @danielle-mulligan.bsky.social
Isabelle Anguelovski @ianguelovski.bsky.social Researcher in urban environmental and climate justice. ICREA Research Professor + Director @bcnuej @icta_uab
Nazanin Ghaffari @nazaninghaffari.bsky.social Asst. Prof. SUNY ESF | Engaged Urban Scholar |✍🏽 about contested landscapes, whose right to what city, racialized spaces, ecologies & governance regimes
Sue Ansarie @sueansarie.bsky.social Currently work in the research team at Local Trust. Interested in lower-income communities, community-led change, housing, inequality, power and large-scale social change https://www.linkedin.com/in/sue-ansarie-31a3a574/
Patricia Fabian @patriciafabian.bsky.social
Meghan Cope (she/her) @mcope.bsky.social Geography prof @ University of Vermont. Striving for thriving, socially just, healthy cities. Also: early 20th C. US geographies of childhood, qualitative research methods, geo-humanities. #MappingAmericanChildhoods https://blog.uvm.edu/mcope-childhoods/
RAND Europe @randeurope.org RAND Europe is a not-for-profit research institute that helps improve policy and decision making through research and analysis, in Europe and beyond. Read our research and commentaries at randeurope.org
Boston Area Research Initiative @bariboston.bsky.social We pursue civic research to advance social, economic, & environmental justice.
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/BARI_NU
Lindsay Sawyer @lindzilia.bsky.social Urbanist | Editor, City @city-journal.bsky.social
@reclaimedspace.bsky.social @reclaimedspace.bsky.social
Urban Affairs Association (UAA) @uaanews.bsky.social An international professional organization for urban scholars, researchers, policy analysts, & public service providers.
Yolande Pottie-Sherman @ypsherm.bsky.social Geographer focused on international migration, immigrant receptivity, & housing justice in Canadian/US cities esp. less favoured regions, small & mid-sized cities. Prof at Memorial U., St. John’s | Mom. Child Care advocate.
Kris Olds @oldskris.bsky.social I'm a geographer/planner w interests in (de)globalization of services (incl #highered & #research) <> #cities, governance of HE, high impact teaching, ice hockey, jazz, photography. #Firstgen grad.
AFFINITY @affectinthecity.bsky.social Affect In the City (AFFINITY): The Emotional Dimensions of Urban Justice. Posting updates and resources on philosophy, cities & affect.
MSCA/YUFE4Postdocs EU-funded project (25-28)
📍Antwerp
Views my own: @lopezcantero.bsky.social
#philsky
Madalina Mezaros @madalinamez.bsky.social PhD Candidate (FNR-AFR) at LISER & University of Luxembourg | Researching housing - gentrification, displacement, fiscal policies - & social change in Luxembourg
Feminist City @feministcity.bsky.social Femme the city! Exploring the (re)production/labor/work/care in/of/for/as the city
[PhD in progress on 1970s feminist spatial politics in London + NYC]
Cathy Oke @cathyoke.bsky.social Director Melbourne Centre for Cities
centre4cities.bsky.social
Live music, AFLW NMFC, MCY, blue banded bee
🌳 🐝 🏙️ 🎶 🏈 ⚽️ 🪴
@city-journal.bsky.social @city-journal.bsky.social
@ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social International Journal of Urban and Regional Research -
The critical edge of research on cities and regions
Housing, Theory and Society @housingtheory.bsky.social Housing, Theory and Society publishes housing research in regards to wider social, cultural, and economic issues.
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/shou20
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/housingtheory/
Progress in Human Geography @proghumgeog.bsky.social Progress in Human Geography is the peer-review journal of choice for those wanting to know about the state of the art in all areas of human geography research
Website: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/phg
Liu Cao 曹流 @drliucao.bsky.social Feminist urban and cultural geographer with interests in urban consumption. Tweeting mostly work and dog. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=C7Sg3SYAAAAJ&hl=en
BU URBAN @buurban.bsky.social Official account for Boston University's Graduate Program in Urban Biogeoscience & Environmental Health (URBAN). Check us out: https://sites.bu.edu/urban/
Sarah Moser @sarahkmoser.bsky.social Urban geography professor at McGill University • new cities built from scratch, cultural politics, graphic novels 🇨🇦
LIVINGMAPS @livingmaps.bsky.social Exploring new directions in critical and creative cartography.
We use participatory mapping to help communities drive social change.
Find us at livingmaps.org.uk
Sara Koopman @spaceforpeace.bsky.social Feminist political geographer, peace studies prof (views my own), solidarity activist. #Colombia.
Kristian Ruming @kristianruming.bsky.social Professor of urban geography & ARC Future Fellow @ Macquarie University
David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social Human Geographer (retired, sort of);
Interested in national identity, sport, heritage, and many other things
Chris Brown @climatisechris.bsky.social Rewilding, Renewables, Retrofit - Climatise.uk
Robin Bartram @robinbartram.bsky.social Sociologist of housing and related things
@UChicagoCrown
Derek Bernardi @derekbernardi.bsky.social Head of Public Law & Homelessness at Lawstop; Solicitor-Advocate; probably telling everyone I'm Canadian for the next 4 years.
Helena Holgersson @helenaholger.bsky.social Urban sociologist, teaches cultural studies and researches language and segregation at the University of Gothenburg.
Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social Ezra Klein’s tweets, articles, clips and podcasts on Bluesky.
Gavin Brown @lestageog.bsky.social CEO of LGBTQ+ health charity, former academic geographer. Still a theory slut who likes to think around.
Urban Studies Journal @urbanstudiesjournal.com Publishing ground-breaking contributions across the full range of social science disciplines.
Follow us for the latest USJ updates. Visit our website to find out more: urbanstudiesjournal.com
Japonica Brown-Saracino @jbrownsaracino.bsky.social Ethnographer. Sociologist. Studies gentrification, sexualities, gender, culture, and place.
Geraint Ellis @gellis23.bsky.social Professor of Planning at QUB: Sustainability, planning, energy, health, environmental protection. Editor of Jrl of Env Planning & Policy. Full profile: bit.ly/ZYkPNM
Sheffield Urbanism @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social Sheffield Urbanism is an initiative that brings together the urban research community across the University of Sheffield: a dynamic, productive and innovative centre for world-leading interdisciplinary urban research.
Madeleine Pill @pillmad.bsky.social Cities and neighbourhoods and governance and public policy
Geography & Planning, University of Sheffield
Malcolm Tait @malcolmtait.bsky.social Researcher - planning, nature and politics. Professor of Planning, Uni of Sheffield. Very amateur lepidopterist
www.planningfornature.org
Trust for London @trustforlondon.bsky.social More than 2 million Londoners are living in poverty. We fund organisations fighting to change that. Follow for data, research & stories on inequality in London.
www.trustforlondon.org.uk
Karen Benjamin @kallienebenjamin.bsky.social Historian at Elmhurst U, UW Madison + UT Austin alum
Good Parents, Better Homes, and Great Schools: Selling Segregation before the New Deal available July 2025 from UNC Press