YIMBY Action @yimbyaction.bsky.social 70+ Chapters across the US fighting for abundant housing that's inclusive, sustainable, and affordable.
Michael Pimentel @mvpimentel.bsky.social mostly transit talk // executive director @caltransit // alum of @goldmanschool @berkeleyecon // former @jerrybrowngov @cahsra // LA native living in NorCal 🇲🇽
// opinions = my own
Lior Steinberg @steinberg.nu Planning cities that make people smile;
Co-founder @ humankind
Author of The Car That Wanted to be a Bike: http://humankind.city/car
📍 Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social Yes In My Backyard. Urbanism. Place. Transit. Bikes. Jersey.
I blog at: walkableprinceton.com
Ken McLeod @kenmcld.bsky.social Bicyclist and policy wonk hoping to make the US more safe for people when they need to go places. Policy Director @bikeleague.org
Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social Infectious Disease doc and clinical researcher; runner, biker, liberal, gardener, hiker, and canoer. Professor @U of MN; Minneapolis __ ID. All posts my own. #BLM #abolishbillionaires
Zack D @mrpresident1776.bsky.social Married to @elenasor.bsky.social with 1 cat & 2 sons. Building bike lanes and bikeshare in the Virginia suburbs by day. Views are mine! Enjoys #ebikes #walks #kayaks #urbanism #trains #modeltrains #ALX
Occasionally writes highspeedfail.blogspot.com
Jeff Sabin @texanokie07.bsky.social “It takes a soul to love the prairie.” -Willa Cather
Lawyer, urbanist, & geographer. Sports, music, regionalism, & urban policy. I prefer pleated pants. Texan by birth, Oklahoman by choice, Illinoisan at heart/by heritage. Profile/posts are my own.
Livable Cville @livablecville.bsky.social We advocate for policies to build an inclusive Charlottesville area with affordable housing, sustainable transportation & healthy neighborhoods welcoming to all
https://livablecville.org/
Sightline Institute @sightline.org Think tank cooking up nonpartisan policy research on housing, energy, climate, and democracy in Cascadia. 🧠🍳 Likes/follows ≠ endorsements.
Newsletters: sightline.org/signup
Philip Garboden @philipgarboden.bsky.social Assoc Prof at U Chicago Crown School: landlords, vouchers, and so forth | Formerly U Hawai`i | Actually a sociologist
Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com Dutch-Canadian authors and urban mobility advocates who strive to communicate the benefits of happier, healthier, more human-scale cities.
The Equal Rights Center @equalrightscntr.bsky.social The ERC advances equal access, opportunity, and fair treatment so individuals and communities can thrive.
Learn more: https://equalrightscenter.org/
philriggan.bsky.social @philriggan.bsky.social 🚴bike commuter! Loves wife & 2 kids, James River & #RVA. Transportation planner w/PlanRVA. Volunteer w/ VaBike rvaMORE. Hiking book: http://tinyurl.com/60HikesRichmond
Greater Greater Washington @ggwash.org The Washington, DC, region is great, and it can be greater. Transportation, housing, land use. Inquiries: info@ggwash.org
Dan HIll @cityofsound.bsky.social Designer, urbanist &c. Director, Melbourne School of Design + Professor, University of Melbourne + Visiting Prof of Practice, UCL IIPP. Prev.: Vinnova (Swedish Gov), Arup, Future Cities Catapult, SITRA (Finnish Innovation Fund), BBC. FRSA.
John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social Pedestrian Historian.
Imperialism Syllabus: http://tinyurl.com/ev4psh98
The Anticolonial Front: http://tinyurl.com/33d3exca.
Youtube: https://tinyurl.com/ykp7r5a9.
Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social Journalist. Contributing editor @TaskandPurpose.com . Bylines at New Republic, The Prospect, Motherboard, Wired, elsewhere. Was once insulted by Martin Shkreli. Signal: nslayton.12
Newsletter: letsdothepanicagain.beehiiv.com
Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social Author of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America • Writer in Residence at Duke University briangoldstone.net
Angie Schmitt @schmangee.bsky.social Planner and writer. Author RIGHT OF WAY. Traffic safety nerd. Mom of two. Working on a new book about child-friendly neighborhoods.
Andy Orban @andyorban.bsky.social Architect, husband & dad, lives in Charlottesville. Bikes for fun and for transport.
Laurie Winkless @lauriewinkless.bsky.social Physicist & science storyteller. 📚#1: SCIENCE AND THE CITY 📚#2: STICKY. Words in other places. Irish in Aotearoa New Zealand. Massive science nerd, biz owner, enthusiastic, outspoken, equity-minded, multi-crafter. She/her. #ToitūTeTiriti #FreePalestine
Alexis Madrigal @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social Book: The Pacific Circuit
Job: Co-Host, KQED Forum
Life: Local Economy, Oakland Garden Club
Tokyo Toni Morrison @sillygenius.blacksky.app I draw shit and paint things.
http://silly-genius.com
http://insitu-archives.com
All City Art Club
http://instagram.com/allcity.artclub
Salim Furth @salimfurth.bsky.social Mostly on LinkedIn. Housing nerd. Personal views only. It's a free country.
Stephen Miller @millerstephen.bsky.social RI → DC → NYC → Montréal → Paris 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇫🇷🚶♂️🚲🚍🚊🚰🏗️🏘️⛵️⚓️🗽🌳🏳️🌈🤔 · Rarely check DMs here · Work policy @transit.app et parfois en français
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.
Jerome Alexander Horne @jahorne.bsky.social 🏙️🚶🏾♂️🚍🚏🚇🚲💪🏾🏳️🌈 (He/Him) Queer Urbanist - Transit Professional - Transit Nerd - Community Connector
Interests: Cities, Cycling, Walking, Architecture, Museums, Performing Arts, Trains, Buses, People
All views are mine.
https://www.instagram.com/jahorne
Tavarris Spinks @teevirus.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🚌🚲Born at MCV and graduated from VCU It took me 25 years to go 25 blocks. Health IT. Posts are mine, my own. Precious.
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
Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social Transit researcher in Berlin. Lived in Tel Aviv, Singapore, the Riviera, New York, Providence, Vancouver, Stockholm, Paris. https://pedestrianobservations.com/ http://patreon.com/alonlevy alon@pedestrianobservations.com @alon@mastodon.social ↙️↙️↙️
Tim McDaniel @andymac89.com AICP, CNU-A
SDEC Cmte. Man-CD 11, @texasdemocrats.bsky.social
President, @basinyoungdems.bsky.social
Other socials: http://linktr.ee/andymac89
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
He/Him/His
Florian Stöger @fdms.eu Young explorer // trains and spaces, travel and places // transit information design and local politics by day, rail travels by night // from Vienna 🇪🇺
Jack Fifield @jackfifield.uk he/him, senior reporter @swns.com - but views my own.
bi cyclist. 🏳️🌈
bylines: Guardian, Mirror, Express, Star, New York Post, MEN, Bolton News, Manchester Mill, others.
📍London, UK
🌐 jackfifield.uk/contact
Leo Wagner @leopwagner.bsky.social urbanist | housing | transit | cities | languages | upenn sas ‘23, mcp ‘24 | english | español | français | čeština | русский | हिन्दी
Jamesley @jameswebb1987.bsky.social Everyone’s favorite transit loving homosexual.
📍Boston
Jared @jaredjct.bsky.social Product and loather of the BQE. Yapper by blood, talker by choice. Posts powered by Dunkin. Take the train. ✡︎ ✞ ♏︎
📍Queens
William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social Gay urbanist (he/him), Coach Operator of the Year ‘21, ‘24, ROSE Award Winner ‘22, 3rd Generation Bus Operator, Near East Indy via The Athens of the Prairie // All views my own
Kristen Jeffers, MPA ✊🏽🌈 (she/they) @blackurbanist.bsky.social Black, Queer, Dynamically Disabled, Southern USA, Spiritual, Working/Lower-Middle Class Feminist Urbanist freelance writer and editor and podcaster.
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
Matt’ Johnson @tracktwentynine.bsky.social gay. transportation planner. Dupont Circle resident. ATL native. Georgia Tech alum. Commissioner for SMD 2B06. 🏳️🌈🚲 Opinions my own. He/him
Noah 🚎 @noahsbwilliams.com Union transit advocate ✊ | Electric Trolley / Zero Emissions | Parallel hybrid bike operator 🔋🚲 | Cyber Mechanic (DevOps/SRE:) | Proudly Cascadian 🌲🟦⬜️🟩
TomTom @tomtomchi.bsky.social Urban planner, friend to animals, bike/transit rider, Chicago fag against fascism
Derek of WayfindDesigns @dmholmer.wayfinddesigns.com Gay🏳️🌈, urban🏙️, systems 🌎 thinker. Architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, cartography, graphic design, and transit.
All opinions are my own.
📍KC>MPLS>Seattle
wayfinddesigns.square.site
Whittney Evans @whittneye.bsky.social VPM News editor, producer and occasional legal reporter in RVA. Rancho Gordo Bean Club member. Tell me what you're curious about https://www.vpm.org/curious-commonwealth.
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.
norfölkology @norfolkology.bsky.social Sometimes anti-social, always anti-fascist | Bikist | Norfolk Virginia bayba | Enjoyer of the sacred and the profane
Michael C Merritt @mikecmerritt.bsky.social Navy veteran, humbled former small business owner, bicycling advocate.
From Massachusetts to Norfolk, VA.
Chairman of the Norfolk Bicycling, Pedestrian, and Active Transportation Commission.
Views are my own.
Born at 324.09 CO2 ppm
Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com Transport / Housing / Land Use / Politics / @urbaninstitute.bsky.social / Le progrès ne vaut que s’il est partagé par tous / yonahfreemark.com / thetransportpolitic.com
Kea Wilson @keawilson.bsky.social Senior editor + advocacy journalist at Streetsblog USA covering the movement to end universal car dependency. Based in STL, reporting nationally. Tips to: kea@streetsblog.org or kwilson.52 on signal. Opinions are my own.
Mike Kropf @mikekropfphoto.bsky.social Lead Photographer at the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Richmond, Va
Alex Goyette @alexgoyette.bsky.social He/him. Dad x3, Immigration & GBV Advocate, Alexandria Lead at YIMBYs of NoVA. Local chief of the useful idiots 🫡
Go Bills, Caps, COYG
Personal account only.
Sign up for Alx YIMBY action alerts: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/join-yimbys-of-nova
Margaret Barthel @margaretbarthel.bsky.social Northern Virginia reporter for WAMU 88.5, the D.C. NPR station. Talk to me at mbarthel@wamu.org or find me on Signal margaretbarthel.37
Jahd Khalil @jahd.bsky.social I’m a public radio reporter for @vpm.org in Richmond, Virginia. My website is jahdkhalil.com and my instagram is @jahdreports.
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
Aaron Wiener @aaronwiener.bsky.social Berlin bureau chief @washingtonpost.com
Judith Nurmann @judithnurmann.bsky.social Urban Planner in Hamburg | Speaker @architects4future | fights #HousingCrisis | #CitiesforPeople | demografischer Wandel
Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com Executive director of the Center for Building in North America (centerforbuilding.org), stephen@centerforbuilding.org. Personal account. Brooklyn, NY.
Mr. Brutalism @jmings.bsky.social Official account of Mr. Brutalism. Architect/Founder of @aggregate-studio.com. Views are my own, y’all should love Brutalism and never skip Leg Day. He/Him/His
https://aggregate-studio.com
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
Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social Midwest correspondent at The Economist, in Chicago. Before that, in London, Mumbai, Nairobi and DC.
Buy my book: http://shorturl.at/BJOUV
Jonathan Berk 🏠 @berkie1.bsky.social Supporting a new generation of walkable neighborhoods with housing abundance, active public realms, & thriving small business ecosystems. Founder remainplaces.com
Action Committee for Transit 👣🚲🚇🚍🚊🧑🏻🦽 @actfortransit.bsky.social We advocate for more & better transit; streets safe for everyone; & housing & land use policies to make this possible. A Montgomery County, Maryland, built for people and not for automobiles. https://www.actfortransit.org/
National Center for Smart Growth (at the University of Maryland) @umdsmartgrowth.bsky.social Home of the Purple Line Corridor Coalition (@plcc.bsky.social), Small Business Anti-Displacement Network, Partnership for Action Learning in Sustainability & the Transportation Policy Research Group.
Rory Stolzenberg @rorystolzenberg.bsky.social renewable energy tech by day. legalizing housing by night. sometimes vice versa.
former planning commissioner in charlottesville
Mike English @mocomikee.bsky.social Downtown Silver Spring Maryland resident and housing advocate. Trans Rights. Liberal. YIMBY. Supply, Stability, Subsidy. Autistic and it’s fine, views my own. he/him
Dan Vock @danvock.bsky.social Freelance reporter. Illinoisan in D.C. Helping you understand how government works—or doesn’t. I RT Illinois news and politicians a lot. Reach me at dcvock@gmail.com
Subscribe to my newsletter https://danvock.substack.com/
Partnership for Smarter Growth @psgrichmond.bsky.social Plan Sustainably. Grow Inclusively. Connect Communities.
📍Richmond, VA
Rieke Havertz @havpost.bsky.social International correspondent DIE ZEIT @zeit.de | co-host podcast „OK, America?“ | book „Goodbye, Amerika?“ | based in Berlin | 📷: Jacobia Dahm
Elizabeth Beyer @bethabeyer.bsky.social Virginia state politics reporter for Cardinal News. Former APSA Congressional Fellow, Wisconsin State Journal reporter and La Crosse Tribune reporter. Always moving, usually grumpy.
Jim Aloisi @jimaloisi.bsky.social Former Massachusetts Transportation Secretary; board member TransitMatters; MIT DUSP & Mobility Initiative. I write, teach & advocate for a sustainable & justice based transportation system.
Logan Millsap @loganmillsap.bsky.social I'm a big fan of people, history, cities, bicycles, and giving a damn.
City Councilmember in Springville, Utah
(he/him)
Michael Allen @mjallen176.bsky.social B: 343ppm - @CALUWX 2x @KentState Alumnus - @TowsonU GEOG Climate - 412 Homer - B’more Nice - 2023 Serbia @FulbrightPrgrm- Heat kills - #ActOnClimate 🚴♀️🍻🐝 📚
TransitCenter @transitcenter.bsky.social A foundation working to secure a just and sustainable future with abundant transportation options. transitcenter.org
Jacki Garry @msjackigarry.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 she/they // 📍Alexandria, VA // Chief of Staff to VA Del. Karrie Delaney // (opinions are my own) 🏳️⚧️
Barry Greene Jr. | Dad In the City 🏙️ @densitydad.substack.com "The South isn't a monolith." – Anthony Bourdain
Founder: @transitfirstclt.bsky.social
🪴 grew @shadesofmoss | ☕️ coffee, 💨 cigars
🚲 #Brompton
🎞️ @barrygrainjr
Catherine Fraser @cathfraser.bsky.social climate @dataforprogress.org | she/her
https://dataforclimateprogress.substack.com/
Jamie Lockhart @jlockva.bsky.social Executive Director of @ppava.bsky.social. Mom. Group Fitness Instructor. Lover of tea. Door knocker for abortion rights.
Lynlee Thorne @lynleethorne.bsky.social
Charles Paullin @cpaullinva.bsky.social Energy, enviro reporter | Past: @virginiamercury.com, a couple others | cpaullin13@gmail.com | Proton: wordsmyth13@proton.me | Signal: CPaullin.13
Patrick Hope @hopeforvirginia.bsky.social Virginia Delegate, representing the people of the 1st District in Arlington County
Madyson Fitzgerald @maddyfitz.bsky.social rva + philly | sims enthusiast | she/her | national content producer @statesnewsroom.com
Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social climate adaptive social housing developer
architect for car-light climate forward cities w/ low carbon + passivhaus buildings, social housing
Author, 'Building for People' (Island Press, 12/2024: https://islandpress.org/books/building-people)
Jonathon Stalls @jonathonstalls.bsky.social Multidisciplinary Walking Artist at Intrinsic Paths 🌎🌳🏳️🌈 (he/his). Author of WALK 📖. Pen art. Mobility & climate justice (Pedestrian Dignity project). Walked Across U.S. in 2010. On Patreon. 🔗 https://linktr.ee/intrinsicpaths
Nathaniel Minor @nbminor.bsky.social Politics reporter for the Minnesota Star Tribune. DM me your tips. Signal: nbminor.08
Carter Lavin @carterlavin.bsky.social Bay Area transit organizer. Trainer of activists, author of "If you want to win, you've got to fight: a guide to effective transportation advocacy" https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9781642833737/if-you-want-to-win-youve-got-to-fight
Calvin Thigpen @calvinthigpen.com Transportation Policy and Planning Researcher | ex-Lime