University of Hertfordshire UCU @uhertfordshireucu.bsky.social UCU branch of the University of Hertfordshire
https://www.ucuherts.org.uk/
Dr Tom Simcock @tomjsimcock.bsky.social Chair of the Housing Studies Association. Research Fellow at University of Huddersfield.
London Data Visualisation @londondatavis.bsky.social Data vis events in London bringing together journalists, designers, developers.
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Housing Europe @housingeurope.bsky.social The European Federation of Public, Cooperative & Social Housing. Since 1988, a network of 45 members and 16 partners in 31 countries managing 25 million homes. HQ in Brussels, working towards a #NewHousingParadigm. www.housingeurope.eu
Riccardo Durante @rikkdante.bsky.social he/they 🏳️🌈
recovering translator ✍️
nature & biology enthusiast 🌲🦭
scattered geek 🎮📚
AuDHDer 🧠
long-hauler 🫥❤️🩹
trans ally 🏳️⚧️
Brussels 📍
Elis Mendoza @lizzanka.bsky.social Arch Historian, urban and human rights researcher representare @UNAM
PhD candidate @Princeton
Research: History of humanitarian design/experimental shelter/emergency housing
@firozem.bsky.social @firozem.bsky.social
Zeynep Aydemir @zeynepaydemir.bsky.social Asst Professor of Architecture at MEF University, FADA.
michelelancione @michelelancione.bsky.social Prof of Geography (he/they) | Co-Direct Beyond Inhabitation Lab www.beyondinhabitation.org | For a Liberatory Politics of Home @DukePress | Editorial board @IJURResearch & EPD | Direct MSc Geography at UNITO | Doc http://ainceputploaia.com
Justin Kadi @justinkadi.bsky.social Social scientist. Housing, inequality, political economy. Associate Editor International Journal of Housing Policy. Associate Professor Dep. of Land Economy, University of Cambridge. Own views.
Kenton Card @kentoncard.bsky.social Tenant rights, social movements, organizing against authoritarianism.
Assistant Professor @sjsu
https://www.kentoncard.com/
Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social Professor of Urban Geography
Eren Can Kepenek @erencankepenek.bsky.social Architectural Irgat
Eray Çaylı @eraycayli.bsky.social #firstgen professor uhh.de/min-cayli • drummer • *einwanderer*
Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social Architecture, landscape, urbanism. Independent nonprofit public scholarship on the built environment. Free & accessible to all.
Read: http://placesjournal.org
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Hayrettin Günç @hayrettingunc.bsky.social Şehirlerin nasıl çalıştığını anlamaya çalışıyorum | Urbanist from Istanbul🇹🇷, currently based in NYC🇺🇸
Chris Aylett @chrisaylett.bsky.social Research Fellow @chathamhouse focusing on the geopolitics of climate change and the energy transition. Views my own.
https://www.chathamhouse.org/about-us/our-people/chris-aylett
Header: 'A List of Antagonisms', Hiba Abdallah
Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social Environmental campaigner & author, The Lie of the Land (William Collins, 2024), The Lost Rainforests of Britain (2022), & Who Owns England? (2019). Forthcoming: The Ghosts of Chalk Country (2027). Agent: @jmlockhart.bsky.social
Professor Loretta Lees @lorettaclees.bsky.social Director Boston University Initiative on Cities. Urbanist, Geographer, Public Scholar, Mum. Lives Boston USA and London UK.
Craig Gurney @craiggurney.bsky.social Senior Lecturer #HousingStudies @UofGlasgow.bsky.social Researching & teaching #Housing #home #Sotl #socialharm #Housing&Health TedX Speaker, Vice-chair Housing Studies Association; Board Member CIH Scotland; Groundhopper; Swindon Town supporter. Own views
Ken Gibb @kengibb.bsky.social I am a housing researcher and direct the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence at the University of Glasgow. Reposts and likes do not necessarily imply assent.
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.
The Old Vic @oldvictheatre.bsky.social We believe that theatre makes the world better.
The Old Vic is an independent creative powerhouse for entertainment and education. A not-for-profit theatre, proud to be a charity.
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
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)
Sophia Maalsen @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social Urban and digital geographer interested in all things urbanism, digital, gender, housing and ‘smart’.
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
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/
Chartered Institute of Housing @cihhousing.bsky.social The Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) is the professional body for people who work in housing, with members worldwide.
Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social Political theorist, political geographer, now mainly write on the history of ideas. Professor at University of Warwick, work on territory, Foucault, Lefebvre and new project on Indo-European thought in C20th France. https://progressivegeographies.com
Pete Apps @peteapps.bsky.social Inside Housing + freelance elsewhere. Author of Orwell Prize winning Show Me The Bodies - How We Let Grenfell Happen. https://peteapps.substack.com
Jim Gleeson @geographyjim.bsky.social Housing research and analysis lead at the Greater London Authority. Opinions here only my own, if that. data.london.gov.uk/housing/
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.
🇱🇹🇺🇦 🏳️⚧️ ally.
She/her
Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk Writer & speaker. Landscape, food, utopias, queer theory, imagination. Prof of Landscape Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture. Antifascist. Recent book: The Landscape of Utopia. At work on 'Reworlding: Planetarity & Future Imaginaries'.
Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social Prof, Maynooth Univ https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/rob-kitchin
PI Data Stories https://datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie/
Author: Researching Digital Life, Digital Timescapes, Data Lives, The Data Revolution
PDFs papers/chs https: www.kitchin.org
Prof Katherine Brickell FBA @kbrickell.bsky.social Prof Urban Studies + Associate Dean (Impact & Innovation) KCL | Author Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State (2025) | Housing/Home/Law | UK & Cambodia | Editor TIBG | Views own | https://www.debt-trap-nation.org/book
Colin McFarlane @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social Professor of Urban Geography, Durham University
http://cityfragment.wordpress.com
DenCity: http://dencity.webspace.durham.ac.uk
Durham: https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/colin-mcfarlane/
David Madden @davidmadden.bsky.social Bag of mostly water.
Adam Dennett @adamdennett.bsky.social Professor of Urban Analytics @ CASA UCL -
@casauc.bsky.social. Lover of drum & bass, beer and tattoos. Drummer. Dad. Run a bit. Live in Brighton.
Phil Hubbard @gypjh2000.bsky.social Professor of Urban Studies, King's College London; Editor Urban Studies. Part-time psychogeographer, landscape punk and walker.
Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social Interested in UK housing policy, planning, economics, housebuilding, energy, social policy. Cambridge based.
cemedede @cemedede.bsky.social cemede.de
Modernism in Metro-Land @modinmetro.bsky.social Art Deco, Modernism and Brutalism in London's suburbs and beyond. https://www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk
Alican Sungur @asungur.com Working on distributed systems and infrastructure. Staff engineer at a global tech company operating in the security space.
Rest of the time: 🧗🏼⛷️🏔️🍵🍷
Opinions my own
John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social Deputy editor: @the-breakdown.bsky.social
johnphilipmerrick@gmail.com / john.merrick@break-down.org
https://www.johnmerrick.co.uk/
Matthew Whitfield @matthewwhitfield.bsky.social buildings, politics, miscellaneous
Everybody's gay, Kimmy. It's the 90s.
Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social Buildings, signs, and symbols collected by keyword. Original photographic documentation since 2010.
Chicago, IL — www.ruralindexingproject.com
Sam Johnson-Schlee @snfschlee.bsky.social Wanted: 7 foot sofa for a 6 foot loafer.
Writer, academic, etc…
https://peninsulapress.co.uk/products/living-rooms
Kian Goh @kiangoh.bsky.social Architect & urban planning professor @UCLA. Urban change & climate justice. Author of Form & Flow (MIT 2021) bit.ly/3Q92Mkd