Women in Urbanism
This starter pack is a curated list of the 100 women and non-binary people in urbanism on Bluesky who post the most interesting, inspiring and original thoughts on cities. It's a collaboration between Cathy Tuttle (https://bsky.app/profile/cathytuttle.bsky.social) and me.
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@aninehartmann.bsky.social
@zahratavakoli.bsky.social
Urban Planner | Transport Analyst | Focused on Sustainable Mobility
@wrigleyfield.bsky.social
Sociologist/demographer specializing in mortality, racial inequity, Covid-19. Avid theater-goer, inconsistent powerlifter, and erstwhile operator of an all-volunteer bookstore. Toddler parent. Living not-quite-car-free in Minneapolis. she/her
@womenurbanismca.bsky.social
A women-led community working to transform Canadian cities into more equitable, enjoyable, and sustainable places for everyone. ✨🌆 www.WomenInUrbanism.ca #Feminism #Urbanism
@womeninmobility.bsky.social
#Mobility #Future #Urbanization | Community for women working in the mobility sector |🇩🇪 🇪🇺 www.womeninmobility.org
@wilsonxcassie.bsky.social
A better world is possible and it starts with brunch. Disabled. PDX. Public policy. Views are my own.
@vickypayne.bsky.social
➖Strategic Planner + Urban Designer➖ Director at Jas Bhalla Works 〰️ Chair RTPI Urban Design Network 💡Large Masterplans/New Settlements 💡High Streets 💡Design Codes💡 Art @vicky_payne_art on Instagram
@veronicaodavis.bsky.social
Author, Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities veronicao.com She/Her #TransportationNerd #InclusiveTransportation 🔺🐘
@urbanistmom.bsky.social
Mom of two in Seattle Walkable communities, biking, transit, parks, housing
@urbancourtyard.bsky.social
Launching the CIMBY (Courtyard In My Backyard) movement in North America, starting in Chicago.
@trufahey.bsky.social
Messaging + strategy for sightline.org. Housing/affordable cities + democracy/elections + climate/energy. Opinions (mostly backed up by research). *Shares/likes =/= endorsements. See my parking = pavement feed.
@tricyclemayor.bsky.social
research fellow @active-ata.bsky.social | active travel | public transport | crit dis | pedestrian every day, tricycling often | Trustee @wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk | Ambassador for Activity Alliance | views are Frida's 🐕 https://linktr.ee/tricyclemayor
@thirdplace.bsky.social
Urbanist exploring how to transform Stockholm’s public spaces into vibrant, social "third places." 🌍✨DM me the spots you want to fix! ✉️ 📍 Sweden https://tplace.substack.com/
@taylorgriggs.bsky.social
Portlander, journalist, bicyclist Writing about transportation/climate/city stuff @portlandmercury.com tgriggs @ portlandmercury dot com Find me on Signal: taylorgriggs.03
@tandemkate.bsky.social
Active travel enthusiast, mobility impaired, enjoy outdoors, making stuff, reading, games, music I work for Wheels for Wellbeing - all views here are my own
@tamikabutler.bsky.social
Nebraska Always. @StanfordLaw alum. Fighting racism, poverty & injustice. @UCLA Urban planning PhD. Mobility justice & dignity all day. All tweets/views my own.
@stephrouth.bsky.social
Post-electoral flaneur. Love dogs, long walks on the beach, community organizing, and transportation and housing policies that advance a survivable planet.
@sophlebo.bsky.social
Reporter @ Streetsblog NYC I also make documentaries: https://www.sophialebowitz.com/film
@shoshannasaxe.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Civil and Mineral Engineering, @uoft, Canada Research Chair Sustainable Infrastructure. Research: How should we literally build the future? Industrial Ecology. Cities. Transport. Construction.
@sgoodyear.bsky.social
Writer. New Yorker. Co-host, The War on Cars podcast. patreon.com/thewaroncarspod
@sesmith.lol
that person with the peaches national magazine award-winning culture critic and journalist seen in bitch (rip), the nation, the verge, rolling stone, etc @theflytrapmedia.com cofounder, @scarleteen.bsky.social coconspirator, & much more! realsesmith.com
@saskiakluit.bsky.social
@saskiakluit Weet veel van duurzaamheid en mobiliteit, voorzitter Rover en senator voor @groenlinkspvda
@saskiaheijltjes.bsky.social
Green Party Cllr for Lambridge, Bath and North East Somerset - #KidicalMass #safestreetsnow #cargobikes Promoted by Michael Coffey on behalf of Saskia Heijltjes (Bath and NE Somerset Green Party), both at Ravenscroft, Sydney Road, Bath
@sarabronin.bsky.social
Mexican-American architect, attorney, Cornell professor, National Zoning Atlas founder, "Key to the City" author, preservationist, 7th-generation Texan, mother of 3. https://wwnorton.com/books/key-to-the-city
@salawatson.bsky.social
History, cities, cycling, planning and play. Often on a bike or in a museum. Researcher - Newcastle University Co-host - activetravelcafe.org.uk Trustee - historictownstrust.uk
@rhifaux.bsky.social
MSc Environmental & Forest Science. Active transportation, climate, nature, parenting, running, social justice, urbanism. Work for a national health-focused environmental nonprofit. Volunteer with Vision Zero Vancouver.
@rezinachowdhury.bsky.social
Labour councillor in Lambeth (inner London borough UK). Deputy Leader & Cabinet lead for Sustainable Lambeth & Clean Air. Social & policy Researcher. Interested in public health & behaviour change.Trade Unionist. Fan of tactical urbanism (and cats!) 🐈⬛ 🌳🐝🌹
@reneedsc.bsky.social
City planner & urban designer. Planning Director with a Metro Vancouver municipality. Mom of 2. Loves soccer, biking, design & cities. Posts are my own.
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Raised on Coast Miwok land, longtime resident on Ramaytush Ohlone land, writer, climate person, feminist, wanderer. Just started a newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com.
@nondriver.bsky.social
Author, When Driving Isn't An Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency (Island Press, 2024). Disabled mom with #nystagmus. Launched #WeekWithoutDriving annazivarts.com
@nicoleroach.bsky.social
Urbanist working to make communities more equitable, enjoyable, and sustainable. Co-founder + Chair of Women in Urbanism Canada (womenurbanismca.bsky.social). 📍Edmonton, AB
@nandasluijsmans.bsky.social
Stedenbouwkundige en landschapsontwerper. Zet zich in voor fijne leefgebieden: levendige architectuur🏘, leefstraten🤸🏽♂️⚽️ (mensvriendelijk) en volop groen.🌳 #Klimaatadaptatie💧 #Natuurinclusief🦋 #Mobiliteitstransitie 🚲
@myurbangen.bsky.social
Mostly Urbanism. From the east coast. Planner at Kimley-Horn in Orlando. Views are my own. http://myurbangeneration.wordpress.com
@mpusto.bsky.social
Cargo bikes, urbanism, safe streets, climate. Heat pump all the things! #MadisonWI
@mplsfietser.bike
Radical localist, urbanist, ecosocialist. I love cities 🏙️, bikes 🚲, trains 🚊, and cats 🐈⬛. Transportation planner for safe streets & healthy equitable communities. YIMBY. Board @streets.mn Neurospicy. Ukraine➡️Minneapolis. Agender/gender apathetic. 🇺🇦🍉
@modacitylife.com
Delft-based urban mobility advocates and authors of ‘Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality’ and ‘Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in our Lives’. www.modacitylife.com
@miriamd.bsky.social
Umweltbundesamt, Nachhaltige Mobilität in Stadt und Land. German Environment Agency. Sustainable urban and rural mobility. Views are my own.
@melaniekebler.bsky.social
Oh my god how many social media apps can I have Mom, attorney, nerd, she/her. Mayor of Bend. 📨 mkebler@bendoregon. https://linktr.ee/melaniekebler
@megankimble.bsky.social
Texas political economy reporter @houstonchronicle.com, based in Austin. Author of CITY LIMITS: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways Professionally curious
@mbonsma.bsky.social
Bikes + data, UofT biophys PhD, mom. I post about bikes and safe streets, local politics, and sometimes science. She/her.
@mariellepm.bsky.social
Political Science Asst Prof | Canada Research Chair & Director, Research Institute for Urban Wellness @MacEwan University Urban scholar | Cities, climate governance and urban wellness Posts on climate change politics, urban policy, parenting
@mapesgeog.bsky.social
Community geographer, cartographer, pedestrian, cyclist. Author of "The New American Small Town: Lessons for sustainable urban futures" (coming June 2025).
@mallorybaches.bsky.social
AICP, LEED-AP, CNU-A Urban design, sustainable cities, ND Football Mom, President of @cnunewurbanism.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk and @ndschoolofarch.bsky.social alum www.cnu.org
@makespaceforgirls.bsky.social
Campaigning for public spaces designed with girls in mind. Reg. charity 1193772. makespaceforgirls.co.uk
@lohplaces.bsky.social
CRE, transit, regionalism Boards: WMATA, GGWash, District Bridges Book: https://www.brookings.edu/books/hyperlocal/ Bio: https://www.brookings.edu/people/tracy-hadden-loh/
@lizalutzker.bsky.social
Safe Streets Researcher: @ucberkeleysafetrec.bsky.social Epi PhD Student: @berkeleypublichlth.bsky.social Advocate: @walkbikeberk.bsky.social Data-driven + Equity-focused Views are obviously mine
@lauralaker.bsky.social
Journalist, author of Potholes and Pavements, cohost of @podstreetsahead.bsky.social https://lauralaker.substack.com
@lauragmitchell.com
Board President @ourstreetsmn.org Parent & safe streets advocate 🚲🚶🏻🚌 Founder of mplscargobikelibrary.com Minneapolis, MN lauragmitchell.com
@knightengale.bsky.social
People over cars. Sweet over savory. Dogs over everything.
@kklevine.bsky.social
Transportation librarian, academic worker, unionist, bike person.
@kellireef.bsky.social
Mother, Leftist, Seeking Mobility Justice & Funding for Public Education 🩷💜💙 🚲 Executive Director at Move Redmond, but this is my personal account
@keawilson.bsky.social
Senior editor + advocacy journalist at Streetsblog USA covering the movement to end universal car dependency. Spare time novelist. Tips to: kea@streetsblog.org or kwilson.52 on signal. Opinions are my own.
@katjadiehl.bsky.social
Pre-order my 1st children's book now! https://katja-diehl.de/links/ Multiple award-winning bestselling author and speaker on transformation - my goal: climate and socially just mobility for all. Enquiries backoffice@katja-diehl.de <3
@kathyparkprice.bsky.social
Brooklyn Organizer for @transalt, leading the campaigns and work in Brooklyn through @TABK and @NBKTA activist committees made up of hundreds of safe streets volunteers. Brooklyn@transalt.org | http://linktr.ee/nbkta | https://linktr.ee/tabrooklyn
@katherinejulia.bsky.social
Clean transportation campaign director at Sierra Club. Advocate for electric bikes, cars, buses, trucks & trains. Mamá in Washington, DC. Drive less!
@katharinehayhoe.com
climate scientist posts 100% my own 🇨🇦 is my home distinguished professor & chair, Texas Tech chief scientist, The Nature Conservancy board member, Smithsonian NMNH alum, UToronto and UIUC author, Saving Us
@kateontransport.bsky.social
Mobility justice/transportation equity/urban planning and policy. Chicago!!! Proud union member (UIC United Faculty). Day job @ @uiccuppa.bsky.social
@jzimbabwe.bsky.social
Architect, planner, and Executive Director of Environmental Works Community Design Center in Seattle. Adjunct faculty at UW. Also: cheese, parrots, travel, music, housing, transit, maps, books, dogs, politics.
@jlrhart.bsky.social
Allison’s mom. 🩷 Safe streets advocate with @safestreetsdc.bsky.social
@jessiesinger.bsky.social
Author of THERE ARE NO ACCIDENTS, "brilliant and alarming" (Booklist), "deeply researched...eye-opening, urgent" (Kirkus). Now on sale http://bit.ly/3AsDJUw
@jennyschuetz.bsky.social
Housing policy wonk. Forever bullish on cities. VP of Housing at Arnold Ventures.
@jenniferkeesmaat.bsky.social
@jenniferhomendy.bsky.social
Chair of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB, not NHTSA), swim-bike-run mom, coffee addict. Views are my own. More about me here: https://www.ntsb.gov/about/board/Pages/Jennifer-Homendy.aspx.
@jenniferdillpsu.bsky.social
Portland State University Professor, Urban Studies & Planning Director, Transportation Research & Education Center Editor-in-Chief, Transportation Research Record
@jaypitter.bsky.social
Award-Winning Placemaker (25+ North American Cities). Author. Speaker. Urban Planning Adjunct Professor. Subdivided Co-Editor. Two Book Deal w/ Penguin Random House Canada. Hip Hop & a lil Punk Rock. Hopeful.
@jannefrommpls.bsky.social
Abundant housing. Justice. Dismantling oppression. Mpls politics. Observations from Zürich. She/her.
@isabellachu.bsky.social
John Snow and safe street stan. Lover of 17th to 19th century cities but with more trees and less cholera. Not official record.
@ericacbarnett.bsky.social
Seattle-based reporter, founder/editor of PubliCola.com, and author of Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery She/her, Latina, Texan
@engineerlikeagirl.bsky.social
Chartered Civil Engineer working in the world of active travel 🚴♀️ 🌍 Like to talk about transport, urbanism, climate change, the environment and nature ❤️ Mum to two boys, a dog and a cargo bike.
@emilykerr36.bsky.social
Oxford City Councillor, Green Party, UK. Loves cycling, trees, circular fashion, car-sharing, local business, community initiatives.
@dubarrypie.bsky.social
Writer of grants and occasional essays. Safe Streets 💛 Unions 💙 Medicare for All ❤️
@drtaragoddard.com
Planning/urban studies professor. Road safety, engineering, behavior, & culture; wildfire planning and response; inclusive disaster evacuation; ethics of tech in transportation; planning in the Petropyrocene. TX now, back to CA soon. She/her.
@debcha.bsky.social
Engineering professor. Author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS (on Riverhead in the US+, on Torva in the UK+). Interested in embodiment, materiality, metacognition, and systems. All enthusiasm is 100% genuine.
@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).
@citizen-cate.bsky.social
Fighting against car dependency, one unused parking spot at a time. Senior researcher at @Sightline.
@bogrosemary.bsky.social
mama + partner | at the intersection of community planning + health equity | #DCStatehood | thoughts + typoos = mine | she/her 🖖🏻 חי 🏳️🌈 | jaimefearer.com
@bikeyface.bsky.social
I have a sense of humor and a bicycle. I exercise both as often as possible. Boston, MA. She/her Bikeyface.com
@bikeshopgirl.bsky.social
🔧 Bike Mechanic + Product Designer 🙌 bikeshopgirl.substack.com 📍Chapel Hill, NC
@bikehfxlobby.bsky.social
She/her. Retired (first) Bicycle Mayor of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Disabled. Mobility justice. #KidicalMassHfx hfx.bike
@bikegillian.bsky.social
Leader of Kidical Mass Arlington, Escuela Key Bicibús, Safe Streets Are For Everyone Thank You (SSAFETY.org). Advocate for safe & sustainable transportation, housing, and a better Arlington VA / DC region
@bettybarcode.bsky.social
Walking is a right; driving is a privilege. Not the other way around. Bigots & bots will be blocked. Oh, and I RT ducks. #DriverNotCar #PlowSidewalksToo #WindshieldBias
@awalkerinla.bsky.social
I'm a writer and a walker in LA. Tracking the city's megaevent progress at Torched. Co-host LA Podcast, episodes weekly at thelapod.com. LAUSD mom. @awalkerinla everywhere else. Sign up for my newsletter at torched.la 🔥
@annejessicalise.bsky.social
Planoloog 🌇 Wandelaar 🐕 Raadslid D66 Haarlem, Commissie Ontwikkeling 🏗️ Ambtenaar in Amsterdam ⛲ Altijd op persoonlijke titel 🙋🏻♀️ In 🇳🇱 & 🇬🇧
@annehidalgo.bsky.social
Maire de Paris, ville hôte des Jeux Olympiques et Paralympiques 2024
@andrealearned.bsky.social
I Create #ClimateInfluence , host #podcasts, moderate, speak and develop creative collaborations | #cities #food #transportation #BIKES | My methods: live events + media (audio, Substack)| #LivingChange podcast | Music via KEXP is my joy
@amyturner.bsky.social
Climate, cities, equity & law. Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Sustainable Cities Fund and some other places.✨ MKE & NYC. 📚: “Urban Climate Law”
@alisonstenning.bsky.social
Geographer - Professor - Mum - Playing - #playstreets - Cycling - #kidicalmass - #WarOnCars - Walking - Noticing - Green - North Tyneside - North Shields - UK
@alidacantor.bsky.social
Geographer, political ecologist, critical legal water energy resources, environmental justice. Associate Professor of Geography at Portland State University. Parent, feminist, union member, bike commuter. She/her.
@aliceferguson.bsky.social
Co-founder of Playing Out movement for children’s 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
@alfredtwu.com
Berkeley Rent Board Commissioner (@alfredtwu.net), California Democratic Party Delegate, East Bay architect & commercial artist. Reblue/follow/like does not equal endorsement. art: http://alfredtwu.com
@alexadelbosc.bsky.social
Australian academic and researcher. Talk to me about sustainable transport or psychology and transport. Taller in real life.
@ajjabajja.bsky.social
High level weird. I miss simply being worried about the state of the world. I solve problems and build stuff like Whee!, Kiosk & Hoi! Mobility and bicycle urbanism. Degrowth, regeneration, equality, peace. ✌️🌱🚲🍉📎
@katelynburns.com
Freelance journalist. MSNBC and Xtra Magazine columnist. Co-founder: The Flytrap. Cancel Me, Daddy podcast co-host. Formerly: Vox For story leads, my signal is kab.80
@cathytuttle.bsky.social
Planner of cities for people & other living things. I post about life in Seattle, Portland, Utrecht + women who create cities + cargo bikes + climate. I'm on the Boards of @americawalks.bsky.social @bikeloudpdx.bsky.social & @sngreenways.bsky.social
@aninehartmann.bsky.social
Architect and urban planner working on mobility, road safety and street design. Walking, cycling and new mobility.🚶🏻♀️🚲🛴 Oslo, Norway - Trans 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ - She/her https://bsky.app/profile/pkinorge.bsky.social linkedin.com/in/aninehartmann