Kent Parkstreet @kentparkskeet.bsky.social
alto flute
I see less than most, but more than some.
Naarm
Tim Holt-Wilson @timholtwilson.bsky.social The story of the Earth - geoconservation, museums, the poetry of things old & wild - based in East Anglia, UK.
https://futureheritage.wordpress.com/
Mr Roger Quimbly @rogerquimbly.bsky.social Fridge magnate
Olaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social Funniest Joke Edinburgh Fringe 2019-2022. Comedian, kids book author, illustrator, Art person. All my stuff is here: https://linktr.ee/Ofalafel
Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social Berk
Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social U.S. Senator, former teacher. Wife, mom (Amelia, Alex, Bailey, CFPB), grandmother, and Okie. She/her. Official campaign account.
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
Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge; economist
Samira Shackle @samirashackle.bsky.social Freelance journalist (mostly for the Guardian Long Read) and author of Karachi Vice. I am also on Substack @samirashackle.
James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social Reporter and writer: https://fallows.substack.com/ and https://www.ourtownsfoundation.org/ One-time speechwriter, long-time pilot, longer-time husband of linguist/writer Deborah Fallows. Note same wristwatch in the two photos, more than 50 years apart.
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book available now.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
๐ https://linktr.ee/naomiklein
Amy @lolennui.bsky.social Camera tinkerer. Contributor @ The Onion.
amyash.me
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social
Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social ๐ Former MP for Brighton Pavilion, former Leader @greenparty.org.uk Professor of Practice, University of Sussex. Author of 'Another England: How to Reclaim our National Story'. Writing & campaigning on climate & nature ๐ linktr.ee/carolinelucasbrighton
Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com Newsroom reporter at the Financial Times, clergy spouse, rider of bicycles.
"I just wanted to see something new every day and tell a story with it": Gus Haynes.
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.
Virginia Heffernan @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social Longtime journalist. Politics, literature, tech.
MAGIC + LOSS
https://virginiaheffernan.substack.com/
Contributing editor, The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/authors/virginia-heffernan
Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social Irishman in London. Founder of award winning investigative news site Democracy for Sale https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social Deputy political editor, Financial Times. Also amateur iphone photographer and some-time musician.
Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-heart-that-works-rob-delaney/3f4398e419f2db84
Wimbledon Community Association @wimblecomm.bsky.social Connecting People, Places and Passions in Merton through the website Wimblecomm: wimbledoncommunity.org
Richard Hebditch @richard.hebditch.org charities streets transport heritage environment philanthropy planning
The Ranty Highwayman @rantyhighwayman.bsky.social A highway engineer's adventures in time & space. The street is not too narrow your imagination is too narrow | Independent sustainable mobility design specialist | Better streets & places | Runs @cityinfinity.bsky.social | https://linktr.ee/rantyhighwayman
Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social President & Chief Correspondent, Feature Story News (www.featurestory.com)
All links: http://linktr.ee/SimonMarksFSN
Podcast: ๐ป: plinkhq.com/i/1111788303
American Week on LBC: https://shorturl.at/Iw9Nn
The iPaper: https://inews.co.uk/author/simon-marks
NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social I have never felt more politically homeless. Parody. Merch: https://tinyurl.com/msjjmwpt
Eddie Millar @emillar.bsky.social Policy Adviser at the Royal Town Planning Institute | planning, housing, nature, govt | socialism or barbarism | Pompey fan | All views my own
Paul Frainer @paolorenato.bsky.social Anglo-Italian. 2nd Gen Immigrant. Doing #Digital in #Planning and #Government. #Strategist. #Advisor. Pensatore profondo apparentemente ๐คทโโ๏ธ) On a #yoga mat, playing bass or dancing. โค๏ธ red wine and #digital #politics, #localgov, #policy #adhd ๐ฎ๐น๐ฌ๐ง๐ช๐บ
Jane Petrie @janepetrie19.bsky.social Once a Trotskyist, once a lawyer, but always European. Socialist, feminist, Sheffield. I like cities, housing and love my cat, Flint, the little mester.
Normal Island News @normalisland.co.uk Be sure to subscribe to the finest satirical newsletter on the internet at the link below. Nothing is more effective at correcting your thoughts.
Substack newsletter: https://www.normalisland.co.uk
Geraint Franklin @geraintfranklin.bsky.social Architectural historian with Historic England (opinions own). British architecture after 1945. Post-Modern Buildings in Britain, HKPA, John Outram. High-Tech Britain out March 2026!
Prosocial Place @prosocialplace.bsky.social Urban & landscape design, planning & research | Psychology | Public Mental Health | Wellbeing | Co-production of places
Ours is an anti-fragile approach, mixed with a little disrupting of the status quo
Graham Marshall + Prof Rhiannon Corcoran
Mary Elkington ๐๐๐บ๐ฆ @maryindevon.bsky.social Town Planner and Geographer (MRTPI). Used to work at NASA - planning IS harder than rocket science. We can do better.
Steve Hilditch @stevehilditch.bsky.social Housing. Labour-ish Politics. Geography. Newcastle United.
North Paddington/Queens Park for 50 years but still a Geordie.
#nufc @redbrickblog @labourhousing
Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social Geographer - Professor - Mum - Playing - #playstreets - Cycling - #kidicalmass - #WarOnCars - Walking - Noticing - Green - North Tyneside - North Shields - UK
Hugh Jackson @hugeaction.bsky.social 'Idiot of twitter', occasional Turkish speaker. kidney Tx, love: fine beer & cheap wine; cycling; Scandinavia; urbanism + planning; old rally cars, books & silly jokes
K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social Socialist Beard Wearer Historian, Trade Unionist, Anti-Racist Tottenham & Cardiff, cat lover,CAMRA member since 1975
Markus Hesse @markushesse60.bsky.social Geographer and planning theorist at the University of Luxembourg ๐ฑ๐บ,interested in spaces & flows. Studying urbanization, financial centres, governance and planning in conflict.
Ryan Lohbauer @ryanlohbauer.bsky.social Architect. Urbanist. Zoning, land development, and multifamily specialist. I love all cities but none more than Philadelphia. Philly-based, but often in Korea.
Centre for Cities @centreforcities.bsky.social The Centre for Cities is an independent think tank dedicated to improving the economies of the UK's largest cities and towns
Daniel Reast @danreast.bsky.social Senior Research Officer at Centre for London. Views my own. Local government, planning, housing, local economies and much more. Also found in Metro, Big Issue, Independent, Mirror et al.
๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
Nazanin Ghaffari @nazaninghaffari.bsky.social Asst. Prof. SUNY ESF | Engaged Urban Scholar |โ๐ฝ about contested landscapes, whose right to what city, racialized spaces, ecologies & governance regimes
C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social The national charity campaigning to protect Britainโs modern architectural and design heritage. Reuse Them or Lose Them!
www.c20society.org.uk
David Madden @davidjmadden.bsky.social Sociologist at LSE studying cities, housing, and social theory. Co-author, In Defense of Housing.
Anna Minton @annaminton.bsky.social Writer, journalist, UEL academic and trying to have it all mum of two boys. Author of Ground Control and Big Capital. Working on a new book on the global housing crisis, which will be published by Penguin in 2026. Contributor to Guardian & FT
@Planographer @planographer.bsky.social Director - UWA Public Policy Institute
๐ #Belfast #London #Perth
๐ #UrbanPolicy | #Cities | #Suburbanisms | #PeripheralCentralities | #PublicPolicy | #Retail | #SexIndustry | #RocknRoll
John Myers @johnrmyers.bsky.social Director @yimbyalliance.org โข Housing and other infrastructure โข yimbyalliance.org
Sophie Gonick @professorsophie.bsky.social urban studies prof at NYU. Currently studying migrant popular economies of housing and labor in NYC
Michele Acuto @acuto.bsky.social Pro Vice-Chancellor at University of Bristol & Prof of Urban Resilience โข ๐๐ณ๏ธโ๐ โข all views my own, sort of...
Professor Loretta Lees @lorettaclees.bsky.social Director Boston University Initiative on Cities. Urbanist, Geographer, Public Scholar, Mum. Lives Boston USA and London UK.
Lynne McMordie @lynnemcmordie.bsky.social Social scientist, researching housing, homelessness and poverty. Critical realism enthusiast.
Ezana Haddis Weldeghebrael @ezanahw.bsky.social Research Fellow, IDD, University of Birmingham | RCC | Urbanist | Political economy of urban transformation & citizensโ struggle for the right to the city | Africa | Tigray
Carey Doyle @cdoyle34.bsky.social chartered town planner at the interface of academia and practiceโ here mostly talking about Scottish community landownership and Land Reform.
Hyun Bang Shin @hyunshin.bsky.social Professor at the London School of Economics (LSE). Head of @lsegeography.bsky.social. #UrbanPoliticalEconomy #Gentrification #Housing #SpeculativeUrbanisation #AsianUrbanisms #Megaevents #Megaprojects Personal web: https://urbancommune.net
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
Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social Historian of protest, political movements, public space in Britain.
https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contested-commons
https://historyofpublicspace.uk
Croydon and Rochdale
@ruralmodernism on Insta.
๐ฑ๐น๐บ๐ฆ ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ ally.
She/her
Professor Beth Perry @itsbethperry.bsky.social Prof Urban Epistemics (Sheffield Uni) - insatiably curious, firmly undisciplined, research-action.
@theurbaninstitute.bsky.social @sheffieldurbanism.bsky.social
www.sheffield.ac.uk/urban-institute
Linked-In /sheffield-urbanism
www.tinyurl.com/urbanradar
Otto Saumarez Smith @osaumarezsmith.bsky.social Historian of shopping precincts, derelict landscapes, leisure centres, power stations, inner cities, housing, the Potteries, Telford new town, & city centre redevelopment. @c20society casework & trustee.
Michael Rosen @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social Writer, performer, broadcaster, university professor
Website: www.michaelrosen.co.uk
YouTube Channel: 'Kids' Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen'
Radio show: BBC Radio 4 'Word of Mouth'
Goldsmiths University of London, Prof Children's Lit., teaching MA
Matthew Adair @ideocity.bsky.social AICP planner and PhD candidate in urban planning @mcgill.ca in Montreal.
Ruth Siddall @pavementgeology.bsky.social What is your city built from? This account is all about building and decorative stones and accessible geology in the built environment. londonpavementgeology.co.uk
https://www.walks.com/guides/ruth-1/
AbdouMaliq Simone @xazaaradjame.bsky.social Urbanist of the majority world; Collaborator in experiments on black urbanism and popular economy. Candomble sufi. The Urban Institute, University of Sheffield
Elara Shurety @elaraks.bsky.social Urban geography PhD student at Kingโs College London, researching damp & mouldy housing on regenerating London estates๐ง๐ฆ || Member of @radicalhousing.bsky.social Journal editorial collective
Rachael Unsworth @leedstours.bsky.social Urban geographer & walking tour guide in Leeds ๐ - local, in a global setting
https://www.leedscitywalkingtours.co.uk/
Researcher, writer ('Leeds: Cradle of Innovation'), presenter, Leeds Phil & Lit, musician ๐ป European
Professional chat posts only
Paul Campbell @paul0campbell.bsky.social London, Active Travel, Urban Planning, Climate, Social Justice, Cycling, Skiing, Running and CPFC ๐ฆ
Alex @alexsz.bsky.social Cycling, urbanism, politics, housing, London, sometimes dogs
Lee Melin @leemelin.bsky.social Town planner currently working in consultancy. Like wandering about looking at stuff. #NFFC
Matthew Spry @mspry.bsky.social Senior Director and Head of London Office at Lichfields, planning and development consultancy | Non Executive Director at Repton Property Devts | Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences | Empty vessel
Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social was a climate forward social housing developer
architect for car-light climate friendly cities w/ low carbon + passivhaus buildings, social housing
Author, 'Building for People' (Island Press, 12/2024: https://islandpress.org/books/building-people)
Anna Plyushteva @plyushteva.bsky.social Migrant, geographer, public transport enthusiast. Research and teaching on urban mobilities, economies, and inequalities. Very sceptical of AI in HE. Titular Associate Professor at @oxfordgeography.bsky.social and @tsuoxford.bsky.social She/her
Malcolm Tait @malcolmtait.bsky.social Researcher - planning, nature and politics. Professor of Planning, Uni of Sheffield. Very amateur lepidopterist
www.planningfornature.org
Mark Scott @markscott-ucd.bsky.social Professor of Planning & Dean | School of Architecture, Planning & Environmental Policy. University College Dublin | environmental planning, rural and land-use planning, heritage. Board Member, Regional Studies Association
@constancecarr.bsky.social @constancecarr.bsky.social Urban Studies, Uni Luxembourg
urbanunbound.blogspot.com
just got here
Anke Schwarz @ankeschwarz.bsky.social Political & urban geographer // plant geek, book peddler & SF nerd
https://ankeschwarz.net
Alexa Delbosc @alexadelbosc.bsky.social Australian academic and researcher. Talk to me about sustainable transport or psychology and transport. Taller in real life.
Alice Ferguson @aliceferguson.bsky.social Co-founder of Playing Out movement for childrenโs freedom and right to play out in the streets and spaces where they live. Bristol, UK.
#SafeStreetsNow #PlayStreets #YesBallGames #KidicalMass www.playingout.net @playingout.bsky.social
Emanuele Sciuva @esciuva.bsky.social PhD in Urban and Regional Development @PoliTO | DIST
Visiting Researcher @ucl @icsunivlisboa
Urban Studies โข Economic Geography โข Digital Geography
Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social Professor of Urban Geography
Thomas Ableman @freewheeling.info ๐ Was Strategy & Innovation Director Transport for London
๐๏ธ Freewheeling Blog / Podcast www.freewheeling.info/blog
SUBSTACK: Freewheeling Bitesize: https://freewheelingbitesize.substack.com/ & History of Europe in 75 Railway Journeys http://bit.ly/3EQNOPA
Isabelle Anguelovski @ianguelovski.bsky.social Researcher in urban environmental and climate justice. ICREA Research Professor + Director @bcnuej @icta_uab
J David Hulchanski @jdhulchanski.bsky.social Professor, housing and community development, University of Toronto.
Stefan Horn @stefanhorn.bsky.social Ecological economist and urbanist investigating land rents and ownership models in sustainable cities | PhD candidate at
@iipp-ucl.bsky.social | Own views
Jan รblacker @januebl.bsky.social Sociologist interested in neighborhood change, housing, gentrification & digitalization | Professor for Human-Context Interaction @THWS | Cologne / Wรผrzburg | www.janueblacker.com | Speaker of DGS Section Urban and Regional Sociology
Philip Thalis @philipthalis.bsky.social Architect, urbanist, public advocate. Principal @HillThalisAUP co author #PublicSydney Book & Puzzle. Architecture Prof. ex Sydney Ind Councillor. Aust Arch Gold๐ฅ2024
On Gadigal country
Laura Harding @lhsyd.bsky.social Drawsโฆwritesโฆknitsโฆimbibes teaโฆthinks about architecture and urbanismโฆsighs a lotโฆ
Please do not replicate or copy my content onto any other platforms.
(The beautiful flowers are Brack)
Liz Koslov @koslov.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Urban Planning, Environment and Sustainability, and Sociology at UCLA. Ethnographer of "managed retreat.โ PhD in Media, Culture, and Communication from NYU.
Kirsteen Paton @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Class. Working on class, cities, evictions and gentrification. Trade unionist, Living Rent member, part of the Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive collective and editor at The Sociological Review
Mara Ferreri @maraferreri.bsky.social Senior researcher in Urban & Housing Geography / Editor @radicalhousing.bsky.social / PI 'EnactDECOM' (ERC CoG) / housing decommodification / spatial justice /
Ben Clifford @benclifford.bsky.social Professor of Spatial Planning. Geographer-Planner based in London. Cities, housing, environment, government. Enjoys travel, hiking, cycling and lots more.
Matt Thomson @mattthomson42.bsky.social Rural urbanistโข. RTPI. AoU. PhD in visions in local place-shaping. Pragmatic Utopian. Head of Strategy & Planning for the Chilterns National Landscape. Views my own.
PlanAbby @planabby.bsky.social Head of Green Infrastructure at Greater London Authority. Chair of CIWEM SuDS & Water Reuse Policy Group. FRSA. MUPP. Urbanist(a). Flรขneur. Non-lycra cyclist. Fil-Am Londoner.
Stรฅle Holgersen @holgersen.bsky.social Human geographer at Stockholm University. Crisis, capitalism, city, class and climate.๐
๐ Against the Crisis (Verso 2024) https://www.versobooks.com/products/3130-against-the-crisis
Josh J Architect @jjarchitect.bsky.social Architecture and built stuff that I find I interesting, amusement park stuff, pro wrestling. Occasionally chicken parm photos.
Nikos Vrantsis @nikosvrantsis.bsky.social PhD in Human Geo, Institute for Housing and Urban Research.
Labor Geography, Urban Geography, Urban Political Ecology, Operaismo.
Views my own.
Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social Professor of Geography @ Manchester & UKRI Future Leader Fellow. Urban Crisis, Cities, Policy Mobilities, Health & Drugs, Climate & Social Justice. Views my own #urban #geography
Tim White @timwhite100.bsky.social Social scientist interested in questions of power at the intersection of housing, land, tech and finance.
King's College London / London School of Economics
www.timwhite.work
John Mollenkopf @jomoko.bsky.social CUNY Graduate Center political science, sociology, Center for Urban Research. Race, ethnicity, immigration, urban politics, political geography and demography, New York in comparative perspective. Bicyclist, cook, sailor, explorer. Brooklynite.
Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social Nature / Climate / More-than-humans / Degrowth / Social justice / Food, Farming and Land Use / Energy / Retrofits / Transport... with typos
London
Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social Writer, CS Grad, environmentalist and optimist.
Focused on infrastructure, macro-systems, and excellence. Bylines in The Globe and Mail, Maclean's, and Toronto Star. DMs Open.
https://www.thetransitbrief.net/
Mark Strong @ibikebrighton.bsky.social #ActiveTravel professional @transport-initiatives.com
Data โ
stories ๐
Travel by๐ถ๐ฒ๐๐๐
Son of โก๏ธ #refugee
#Scouser #YNWA now #QueensPark #Brighton
Ex #CVS co-optee @brighton-hove.gov.uk Place Scrutiny Cttee
Political posts @markforqueenspark.bsky.social
Jason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social Canadian Urbanist and Chief Planner for the City of Toronto ๐จ๐ฆ