City & Community @cicojournal.bsky.social City & Community aims to advances urban sociological theory, promote the highest quality empirical research on communities and urban social life, and encourage sociological perspectives on urban policy. An @asanews.bsky.social journal.
Washington Center for Equitable Growth @equitablegrowth.bsky.social Non-profit research & grantmaking organization dedicated to advancing evidence-backed ideas & policies that promote strong, stable & broad-based economic growth
equitablegrowth.org
Kerry Fang @kerryfang.bsky.social Associate Professor, Urban and Regional Planning @ UIUC. Study economic development and land use policy. kerryfang.weebly.com
I'm also on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/li-kerry-fang-a58517188/
Federico Botta @fedebotta.bsky.social Senior lecturer in data science at Exeter Computer Science. Fellow at Alan Turing Institute. Works on computational social science, spatial data science, urban analytics, data for policy.
Bernadette Hanlon @bhanlonurban.bsky.social Professor City and Regional Planning at the Ohio State University | Editor-in-Chief Journal of Urban Affairs |
Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social Chasing wealth and income, present and past, onshore and offshore.
https://gabriel-zucman.eu
https://www.taxobservatory.eu
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.
The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc The City Reporter is an independent nonprofit newsroom serving New Yorkers. Sign up for our newsletter: thecityreporter.nyc/the-city-newsletters. Send tips: thecityreporter.nyc/contact/
City & State NY @cityandstateny.bsky.social A website and weekly magazine covering politics & policy in the Empire State. First Read emails 7 a.m. & 6 p.m. Got tips? editor@cityandstateny.com
Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com A news outlet owned & run by journalists covering NYC: https://hellgatenyc.com
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social “Zizek if he was a woman and loved sandwiches”
New Yorker staff writer, dept. of mastication
It’s always Free Palestine 🍉
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
Mark Kear @mtfkear.bsky.social Associate Prof in the School of Geography, Development &
Environment at UArizona. Wanderer of financial borderscapes. Heat, housing and finance. Views my own.
Joe Weisenthal @weisenthal.bsky.social Cohost of The Odd Lots Podcast
Singer and guitarist in Light Sweet Crude
Tracy Alloway @tracyalloway.bsky.social Co-host of the Odd Lots podcast. I like financial crisis hindsight, spurious correlation and puppies. London ➡️New York ➡️Abu Dhabi ➡️Hong Kong ➡️New York
David Klion @davidklion.bsky.social Working on a book about the legacy of neoconservatism. Columnist for The Nation, contributing editor at Jewish Currents, writer for many lefty mags. KLEE-on
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Qunshan Zhao @qunshanzhao.bsky.social Professor in Urban Analytics and Associate Director of Urban Big Data Centre in the University of Glasgow
Alan Murray @atmurray66.bsky.social Director, Wildfire Resilience Initiative (https://wri.ucsb.edu/)
Professor | Yardi Endowed Chair in Geography
Department of Geography, University of California at Santa Barbara
https://www.geog.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/alan-murray
sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social journalist and lawyer based in Portland, OR.
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 
Nikhil Garg @nkgarg.bsky.social I study algorithms/learning/data applied to democracy/markets/society. Asst. professor at Cornell Tech. https://gargnikhil.com/. Helping building personalized Bluesky research feed: https://bsky.app/profile/paper-feed.bsky.social/feed/preprintdigest
Magda Maaoui, PhD @magdamaaoui.bsky.social housing + environmental health.
Asst. Professor of urban planning @gsd.harvard.edu
Co-lead healthy places design lab
Formerly OECD, Paris planning, Ad’A
www.magdamaaoui.com
currently working on hospitals x housing, any lead/personal story welcome
flavien ganter @flavienganter.com sociologist. international migration, ethnoracial boundaries, and quantitative methods. currently a max weber postdoctoral fellow at the european university institute
flavienganter.me
John Joe Schlichtman @jjschlichtman.bsky.social getting in where I fit in when it comes to just community development | GENTRIFIER ('17) | SHOWROOM CITY ('22) | Grinding on new book (~26-7) | DePaul University prof | http://urbanistchronicle.com/books/
Arthur Acolin @arthuracolin.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. University of Washington in Seattle. Housing. Why do we live where with whom and how much is spent by whom to who in order for us to do so?
Urban Affairs Association (UAA) @uaanews.bsky.social An international professional organization for urban scholars, researchers, policy analysts, & public service providers.
Next City @nextcity.org Next City’s journalism centers marginalized voices while amplifying solutions to the problems that oppress people in cities.
Laura Kurgan @laurakurgan.bsky.social @faculty @GSAPP @ Columbia University c4sr.columbia.edu lapsed architect, maps, dataviz, art, design, spatial computation, spatial research. 
Bob (Robert) Summers @rjsummers.bsky.social Professor and Director, School of Urban and Regional Planning. University of Alberta. Also Director of the Sustainability Council at U of A. @rjscity on Twitter. Fun fact - I have the most popular comment in the history of the New York Times.
Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social Entrepreneur
Costplusdrugs.com
Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social This is me, not an official account. Led NYU-Marron’s passenger rail modernization effort; co-authored/edited the landmark ‘A Better Billion’ subway report. Now working on next gen trains at the MTA. City beat reporter in a former life. Hook’em🤘. 🏳️🌈.
Matt Blackwell @mattblackwell.bsky.social data, experiments, evals @Google. opinions my own.
political scientist 4 life
https://mattblackwell.org
Timothy Hyde @hydetimothy.bsky.social Historian of architecture, urbanism, modernity / MIT / Author of Ugliness & Judgment / research: architecture & law, building sites, ugliness, Antarctica
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.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/naomiklein
David King @cityplanning.bsky.social Associate Professor of Urban Planning, Arizona State University
I study transport, land use, local governance.
Cityplanning.01 on signal.
Four freedoms.
Google Scholar page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=uFu5Z2YAAAAJ&hl=en
Shengwu Li @shengwuli.bsky.social Econ prof at Harvard. (Mechanism design, market design, behavioral theory.) www.shengwu.li
Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social Inequality, higher education, gender, work and organizations, open science, Alaska.
All posts are made in my personal, not professional, capacity. I do not speak for my employer.
Housing Policy Debate @houspoldebate.bsky.social Housing Policy Debate provides a venue for original research on housing and community development policy. Vincent Reina is the current Editor in Chief.
Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social Economist. Economic Historian. Lego Nerd. Sharing thoughts.
Richard Thaler @rthaler.bsky.social Behavioral Economist, sports fan
M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social the once and future city planner // chief urban planner METROPOLITAN ABUNDANCE PROJECT // AICP // YIMBY // #BBN // author of hit broadway musical arbitrary lines
David Madden @davidjmadden.bsky.social Sociologist at LSE studying cities, housing, and social theory. Co-author, In Defense of Housing.
Tyler Haupert @tylerhaupert.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at NYU Shanghai. I study housing, neighborhood change, and fintech lending.
Howard Slatkin @hslatkin.bsky.social Urban planner, New Yorker, more. Executive Director at Citizens’ Housing and Planning Council. Views expressed here are my own.
Valerie Stahl @valstahl.bsky.social assistant prof of city planning at SDSU- deeply affordable housing, zoning and land use, participation. Also a mom, wife, friend, cancer survivor, franco-américaine, NYC lover, pretty good cook, excellent eater, glasses enthusiast, and linen wearer. 
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies @harvard-jchs.bsky.social We strive to improve equitable access to decent, affordable homes in thriving communities, and we conduct rigorous research to advance housing policy and practice. www.jchs.harvard.edu
Akira Drake Rodriguez @akirarodriguez.bsky.social Interested in race, cities, politics. Diverging Space for Deviants (UGA Press 2021): http://tinyurl.com/Divergingspace Working on a new book project. 
Robin Bartram @robinbartram.bsky.social Sociologist of housing and related things
@UChicagoCrown
@jhuennekens.bsky.social @jhuennekens.bsky.social 
UCSB Blum Center on Poverty, Inequality, & Democracy @ucsbblumcenter.bsky.social We support community engaged research and knowledge about poverty, inequality, and the role of democracy. https://blumcenter.ucsb.edu
Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out Oct 2026: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251449/seeing-like-a-supply-chain/. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
Itai Sher @itaisher.bsky.social Economics and Ethics, UMass Amherst 
David Harvey @davidharvey.org Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center; Director of Research, Center for Place, Culture and Politics. New book: The Story of Capital. Posts from David Harvey personally are signed -DH
Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social MIT-trained economist & Harvard prof | 1st-gen college grad | Education, inequality | Shitposts in a Boston accent | 1st career: union organizer
NYT Columns
https://www.nytimes.com/by/susan-dynarski
https://linktr.ee/susan.dynarski
www.susandynarski.com
#urbanecon @urban-econ-papers.bsky.social Recent research in urban, regional, and spatial economics. Automated posts from the Journal of Urban Economics (JUE), Regional Science and Urban Economics (RSUE), and the Journal of Economic Geography (JOEG). Tag me for manual retweets. Unofficial account.
Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social i'm on the verge of tears by the time we arrive at espace, since i'm positive we won't have a decent table http://rachaelmeager.com http://rottenandgood.substack.com
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:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social policy, $, political economy of race // 70-80s soul, 90s hip hop // #DubNation // proud product of miscegenation // Berkeley prof (formerly: Princeton CSDP, UW)
Ben Golub @bengolub.bsky.social economics and computer science professor at Northwestern
bengolub.net
social and economic networks
originally from Ukraine
Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social Historian, opinions my own. Hand upon the dollar, eye upon the scale. He/him. 
Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website anthropology, algorithms, attention | he/him | The conversation is characterized by Nick's use of language, but the content of the discussion remains unknown.
John Voorheis @johnvoorheis.bsky.social Bad takes are my fault
@surlyurbanist.bsky.social @surlyurbanist.bsky.social 
Zachary Lamb @zacharylamb.bsky.social UC Berkeley, Department of City and Regional Planning.
'The Equitably Resilient City: Solidarities and Struggles in the Face of Climate Crisis' (MIT Press 2024)
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262549868/the-equitably-resilient-city
Bruce Stiftel @brucestiftel.bsky.social Environmental planning and international development theorist at Georgia Tech [USA] #planningsky
Sara Meerow @sarameerow.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of Colorado Boulder
My work focuses on urban resilience. I research and inform how communities plan for and govern climate hazards like extreme heat, green infrastructure, and climate change adaptation.
Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com Transportation engineering professor. Road safety, planning, behavior, & culture; wildfire planning and response; inclusive disaster evacuation; ethics of tech in transportation. Pedagogy and rsearch methods nerd. SLO and Tahoe. "Tare-uh", She/her.
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).
Ladd Keith @laddkeith.com Climate planner | Associate Professor & Director, Heat Resilience Initiative, University of Arizona | Helping cities plan for extreme heat 🏜️🏳️🌈 https://laddkeith.com
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
Michele Acuto @acuto.bsky.social Pro Vice-Chancellor at University of Bristol & Prof of Urban Resilience • 🏀🏳️🌈 • all views my own, sort of...
Paavo Monkkonen @elpaavo.bsky.social Housing scholar - California, Mexico, France, Hong Kong
Jago Dodson @urbanizationist.bsky.social Professor of Urban Policy, Melbourne, posting/following mostly academically on housing, transport, planning, infrastructure, energy, governance, geography, and climate.
If I followed you it is probably via a starter pack (not personal).
Also @ X, 🐘, 🪡
Dr. Susmita Rishi (Sush) @susmitarishi.bsky.social Lover of Cities | Engaged Critical Urban Scholar | Planner, Urban Designer, Architect | Associate Professor | Focus: Urban global South, Informality, making Home, Urban Design Equity, and Justice
David M. Levinson ⁂ @transportist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Trnsprtst. Rogue Planner. Refreshingly Unromantic. So F*ing Lucid. fRSN. 2%. Research: #Access, #Transport #Economics, #NetworkEvolution, #Traffic. Founding […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.social/@Transportist, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Raúl Santiago-Bartolomei @rsbartolomei.bsky.social Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Planning, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. Recovering engineer. Faculty Union Coordinator: appu.org #BlueskyPR #development #housing #infrastructure #climatechange #PuertoRico #Caribbean
Cat Brinkley @drdrcatbrinkley.bsky.social Prof with a focus on #OneHealth- health is shared between humans, animals, and the environment #planner #veterinarian Interested in planning science, history of food systems, and future of development
Alex Karner @alexkarner.bsky.social associate professor//community & regional planning. mobility justice, transportation equity, civil rights, environmental justice, accessibility, GIScience, etc. views my own.
longer-form writing: https://alexkarner.substack.com
Jennifer Dill, Ph.D. @jenniferdillpsu.bsky.social Portland State University
Professor, Urban Studies & Planning
Director, Transportation Research & Education Center
Editor-in-Chief, Transportation Research Record
Tim Welch @tfwelch.com urban planner, educator, transport nerd, data geek, dad
Prentiss Dantzler @docdantzler.bsky.social Housing Policy | Race Relations | Community Development | Reparative Justice
Associate Professor - Sociology
University of Toronto
www.drdantzler.com
Founding Director - Housing Justice Lab
School of Cities
www.housingjusticelab.org
Frischplan @frischplan.bsky.social Urban planning + design prof, writes and thinks about cities, community development, LGBTQ communities, the environment, Kansas City MO, Col. Co, NY (New Lebanon), housing, synth-pop, Quaker (PVMM, IYM-c), non-violence, bicycles. 🏳️🌈 views are my own. 
Samina Raja @saminaraja.bsky.social Accidental professor. Perpetual student. Founder Food Systems Planning and Healthy Communities Lab, University at Buffalo (UB Food Lab). Kaeshir (Kashmiri). https://foodsystemsplanning.ap.buffalo.edu/
Nichola Lowe @nicholalowe.bsky.social professor, equitable economies, workplace development, inclusive innovation
Andrew Greenlee @urbprof.bsky.social Professor studying equity dimensions of housing and neighborhood change. All views expressed here are my own.
Rolf Pendall @rpplan.bsky.social I'm an urban planning educator at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. My questions/quests: Can zoning make communities equitable instead of protecting privilege? What narratives & political campaigns can lead to zoning for equity?
Tom Sanchez @tomwsanchez.bsky.social Cities, technology, analytics, etc. http://tomwsanchez.com/
Gala @galashine.bsky.social City Planning observer interested in inclusive public participation in planning process
Abigail Friendly @abigailfriendly.bsky.social Assistant Professor of planning at Utrecht University. Urban policy, cities, housing, politics, Brazil, Canada.
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.
@loistakahashi.bsky.social @loistakahashi.bsky.social 
Katrin Anacker @katrinanacker.bsky.social Professing U.S. housing policy and suburbs. Senior Associate Editor, Journal of Urban Affairs. Author of "Housing in the United States: The Basics" (Routledge, 2024). Arlington, VA.
Camille Barchers @camillevb.bsky.social assistant professor @UMassAmherst
phd @GeorgiaTech, mrp @Cornell
Researching resilience, community engagement, & technology, dog lover, she/her, views my own
Roberto Rocco @roberto-rocco.bsky.social Associate Professor of Spatial Planning and Strategy @TUDelft, author, editor (and painter when time permits). #SpatialJustice #PublicGoods. #Publicness. Visit the Centre for the Just City https://just-city.org
Giulio Verdini @giulioverdini.bsky.social Urbanist | PhD | Associate Professor in Urban Planning University of Westminster, London | Co-coordinator Global South & East TG Group AESOP | Planners 4 Climate Action | Academic Advisor Union for the Mediterranean
Stephen Ramos @sjramos.bsky.social Urbanist Professor Writer Editor Musician
https://ced.uga.edu/team_member/stephen-ramos/