Diverse Urbanism Voices
Trying to include more diverse identities and lived experiences to create a more inclusive and accurate conversation about urbanism and transit!
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@chanface.bsky.social
@thecanavigator.bsky.social
(she/they) 16 ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐๐ ๐ transit advocate and rider social media @catenarymaps.org content moderation @samtrans.com outreach @transbaycoalition.bsky.social words are mine only, i donโt represent anyone els๏ฟผe ๐ญcommissions open!! ๐east bay
@wb62.bsky.social
@nickmorrison.me
Passionate about accessible cities and #VisionZero. Founder of Safe Streets Halton He/Him (thoughts and opinions are my own). ๐ถ๐ฟโโ๏ธ๐ด๐ฟโโ๏ธ๐๐
@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 ๐ https://linktr.ee/tricyclemayor
@citiesbydiana.bsky.social
SF Bay Area ๐บ๐ฒ๐ฃ๏ธ๐
@mitchellsilver.bsky.social
Urban planner, public speaker, placemaker and professor of practice. Former NYC Parks Commissioner, Raleigh Chief Planning Officer and AICP & APA President. Passionate about people, the planet, planning, parks & public space.
@nottaylorx.bsky.social
22 | YVR/YYZ | transit planning, scheduling, wayfinding, technology | urbanism food travel pop music etc
@blackurbanist.bsky.social
Black, Queer, Dynamically Disabled, Southern USA, Spiritual, Working/Lower-Middle Class Feminist Urbanist freelance writer and editor and podcaster.
@transitthinker.bsky.social
Transit enthusiast | Map maker | Young person | Transit Youtuber | Hopeful for the future of cities & transit | Views are my own | he/him
@nonstndrd.com
Kwasi Boyd-Bouldin. Artist/Photographer/Designer. 2022 LAPL Creator in Residence. I make things and document spaces. Creator of @archivalrecordings.com https://www.nonstndrd.com/#/portal/signup https://www.archivalrecordings.com/#/portal/signup
@thestreettrust.org
Through community safety, education and advocacy at every level, The Street Trust is working to help end traffic violence, solve the transportation funding crisis, and build safer, accessible, and complete streets for all Oregonians. #MoveOregonForward
@sarahforpdx.bsky.social
Executive Director @TheStreetTrust.org promoting low-carbon transport for public health & economic justice. Fmly ran a global urban best practices exchange at Portland State. Recovered chef & restaurateur. #TacticalOptimism #EverydayAntifascist
@mroddc.bsky.social
Director of Research @ Smart Growth America / @smartgrowthusa.bsky.social . Economist & urban planner. Passion for cities, data, real estate, & transpo ๐. ๐ถ are the best. DC region / NoVA.
@krissanveeras.bsky.social
(he/him) Board member of TTCRiders ๐ Co-founder of Scarbenv.ca ๐ฟ Tamil ๐๐พ #ScarbTO Madeโ๐พ
@evansambasivam.bsky.social
Passionate about Toronto. Advocate for affordable housing, poverty reduction, and ending homelessness. Raptors fan since the dark ages.
@veronicaodavis.bsky.social
Author, Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities veronicao.com She/Her #TransportationNerd #InclusiveTransportation ๐บ๐
@ravikahlon.bsky.social
BC Minister for Housing and Municipal affairs MLA North Delta Chair, Cabinet Committee on Tariff Response Two-time ๐จ๐ฆ Olympian Coach, Mentor and Proud Dad.
@razzberryyams.bsky.social
Likes: Vancouver, Skytrain, dense walkable mixed use neighbourhoods, trans rights, sports, Vancouver Canucks, CANWNT, romance media, trans rights, pop music, AOC Reading The Power Broker is my personality he/him
@liaokev.in
Online presence: https://liaokev.in Senior software engineer at Token Transit. Passionate about cities and transit, language learning, swing dancing and Bromptons. Every now and then I preach at forefrontnyc.com
@itsbilal.bsky.social
Building a great database. Advocating for a better Toronto and more housing. And a lot of things in between.
@mckelleykc.bsky.social
Husband | Father | Royals/Braves | Passionate about socks and multimodal transportation | He/Him
@davsot.bsky.social
Sustainable cities and multimodal transportation in Puerto Rico and elsewhere.
@shastingssimon.bsky.social
Currently on medical leave but usually Associate professor, Dept of Earth, Energy, and Environment, University of Calgary; co-director http://NZERI.ca; energy/carbon/innovation policy + bikes.
@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
@racingboo.bsky.social
Media studies PhD with focus on discourse related to cycling and cyclists: applied social dominance theory to the roads network. Interested in social justice and equality. I share anything i find interesting. ๐ฟ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ช
@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.
@barbaralaa.bsky.social
Sustainable transport ๐จโ๐ฆฝ๐ถ๐ฝโโ๏ธ๐ฒ๐๐ keeping the planet habitable ๐ researcher @ TU Wien | activist | she/her
@alisonstenning.bsky.social
Geographer - Professor - Mum - Playing - #playstreets - Cycling - #kidicalmass - #WarOnCars - Walking - Noticing - Green - North Tyneside - North Shields - UK
@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
@aninehartmann.bsky.social
Architect and urban planner working on mobility, road safety and street design. Walking, cycling and new mobility.๐ถ๐ปโโ๏ธ๐ฒ๐ด Oslo, Norway - Trans ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ - She/her https://bsky.app/profile/pkinorge.bsky.social linkedin.com/in/aninehartmann
@naubinhorth.bsky.social
Professor #SOTL #bioRxiv affiliate. Citizen volunteer to make Quรฉbec city a happy city. Elected on Conseil de Quartier St-Louis & Vice-president of Table de Concertation Vรฉlo de Quรฉbec ("Quรฉbec bike coalition"). Elle/she/her/ella
@biknmusicmama.bsky.social
Sheโs a musician, advocate for safe streets, arts & food-filled, walkable, kid-friendly communities w/ great transit. Reader. Cook. Teacher of music and bike riding. Estoy aprendiendo espaรฑol y buscar #ciclista Twitter was @ElleryKlein
@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.
@fisheraj.bsky.social
Transit data scientist Lynx fan Masking until indoor air is clean enough for everyone ๐ท they/them
@lauragmitchell.com
Board President @ourstreetsmn.org Parent & safe streets advocate ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ป๐ Founder of mplscargobikelibrary.com Minneapolis, MN lauragmitchell.com
@korichardson.bsky.social
doer of things, lover of peeps, or is that lover of things, doer of peeps (he/him) https://www.instagram.com/korichardson https://www.tiktok.com/@korichardson
@ronythebikeczar.bsky.social
Bike Urbanism Food Systems Data Coffee Tea Bread Cat Chicago Former Coastal Elite Person ronythebikeczar.substack.com
@deveric.net
Parent & spouse. Bicycles. Transit. Music. Gaming. Climate. MN/๐ต๐ท news. Queer/Genderqueer. Poly. Organizer. They/He Elle/El I roller skate sometimes @rollnorthmn.com. Move MN board chair and Imaginative Realism Foundation board member.
@dvyk.bsky.social
+tech, trust and safety, fairness | internet sanity +politics, nonprofits, global affairs | democracy is good +housing, transit and urbanism | integration now Ethics+Society+Tech@Stanford Lead@SF YIMBY #GoKingsGo *opinions are my own!* ๐บ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฆ
@zyudhishthu.bsky.social
Sidewalk enthusiast and former St. Paulite. I like to write about housing policy, especially in the Twin Cities. Nowadays Iโm an economics research assistant in Chicago https://pencillingout.substack.com/
@jerusalem.bsky.social
yes, like the city | staff writer at The Atlantic | Host of the Good on Paper podcast | she/her
@ramseyk.bsky.social
Chapter Lead @TONewLibs.bsky.social | Organizer @MoreNeighboursTO.bsky.social | Steering Committee Member @cnliberalism.org | Board Progress and Poverty Institute
@khelsilem.bsky.social
Posting live from Squamish Nation territory (Vancouver, BC). Posts are my opinion, which is subject to change based on new information.
@activetraveltt.bsky.social
As with most places, we've allowed cars to crush our tiny islands of Trinidad & Tobago. We don't expect everyone to ride a bicycle for transport, but we would like the population to have real choice when it comes to travelling around a tiny place. #TTMoves
@bikingmzstacey.bsky.social
๐ด๐ผโโ๏ธ๐ด๐โด๐ต๐ค๐๐๐โก๏ธ Lighter/safer, optimized mobility of people, goods, & energy ๐๐ฅ๐ Make Cities4People โWreckless SPOKESPERSONโ Bike Thoughts on: https://bsky.app/profile/biketalk.bsky.social Climate Chatting: https://bsky.app/profile/climatechat.bsky.social
@laflaneuse.bsky.social
MSP from KCMO. She/her/they. Cities, transportation, books, WNBA (go Lynx!), still masking bc Covid never went away and itโs not a cold. @lalaflaneuse on IG
@sippindata.bsky.social
NMNT is a community of people who want to have a more liveable city and a good sleep. Opinions here are my own, but should be somewhat connected to reducing noise for the benefit of people and our planet. Noise is a public health, equity and climate issue.
@katjakircher.bsky.social
Research Leader at VTI, Sweden. Sustainable transport, active travel. Cycling long and short distances. eng/swe/ger
@amyelee.com
Postdoctoral scholar at UCLA. Transportation/ planning/ environmental/ climate policy and politics. Studying things like highways and parking. She/her. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ amyelee.com
@bethsawin.bsky.social
Director Multisolving Institute. She/her. Systems thinking, climate justice, and multisolving, with a sprinkle of gardens and the odd puns. @bethsawin on X
@sflkirk.bsky.social
Health Promotion Prof at DalhousieU. Account mainly focused on pop health, climate anxiety & advocacy for safe streets. UK export now physically located in Kjipuktuk/Halifax, Canada. Volunteer board member of @velocanadabikes.bsky.social. She/her.
@huyentkle.bsky.social
Urban transport/health researcher. Asst Prof @ Ohio State University. Interested in sustainable transportation, environmental exposure, environmental justice, well-being, & coconuts. Personal account. https://u.osu.edu/huyenle/
@ladybugspicnic.bsky.social
Running. Bikes. Birds. Urban Things. Photo credit to Jason Tang (The Canadian Press).
@jkparker.bsky.social
Data wrangler and mom in Edmonton. #opendata and #yegbike geek. She/her.
@alilabanane.bsky.social
Bilingual (en/fr) Iโm bananas for biking because it keeps me happy & healthy. Bicycle Mayor of Toronto. FemmesandFriends. Director Advocacy & Public Policy, Cycle Toronto. All views expressed are mine.
@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.
@wutrain.bsky.social
Mayor of Boston โข Mom to Blaise, Cass & Mira โข Personal account
@arieltroster.com
City Councillor for #SomersetWard in Ottawa. Queer Jew. A better city is possible. Letโs build it together. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
@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
@rmchase.bsky.social
sustainable urban transportation. Co-founder Zipcar, NUMO #climate #cities #transport #justice #bikes. Also knitter, gardener, parent
@sunny.ng
Accidental transit cartographer and game dev in Brooklyn. Projects: @theweekendest.com, goodservice.io, Subwaydle. he/him. ๐จ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ URL: sunny.ng
@princeguma.bsky.social
Researcher | geographies, infrastructures, technologies, politics, lifeworlds
@priyasound.bsky.social
Easily amused. Bike commuter and transit enthusiast, trying to be car-free. ION โค๏ธ. Walkable cities. Support local. Waterloo, ON.
@stephaniefritz.bsky.social
Always trying to find the right words. Urbanist. Working towards a future with a person-centric, person-scaled Waterloo Region. ๐ Class of 2026 - Planning MA (University of Waterloo)
@ignorantsapient.bsky.social
๐ก Advocate for housing reform | ๐จ๐พโ๐ป Tech Bro ๐คท๐พโโ๏ธ | ๐ธ Personal Finance Dude ๐ค |๐ถโโ๏ธ I walk a lot ๐๐พโโ๏ธ | โฅ๏ธ busses ๐, trains ๐๐ & Bikes ๐ด๐พโโ๏ธ | Oui, Je parle franรงais aussi ๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐ง Waterloo, ON, ๐จ๐ฆ
@jahorne.bsky.social
๐๏ธ๐ถ๐พโโ๏ธ๐๐๐๐ฒ๐ช๐พ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ (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
@marcebuna.info
๐ต๐ญ๐บ๐ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ Transit wonk from Queens/LI working on digital passenger info systems www.MarcEbuna.info
@winkyj.bsky.social
NDP ๐งก๐งก Chair of Active Transportation Real Life Robotics Cycle WR VP KW Famous Chief Hype Officer Rotarian #science
@laurencelui.ca
@bikegillian.bsky.social
Leader of Kidical Mass Arlington, Escuela Key Bicibรบs, Safe Streets Are For Everyone Thank You (SSAFETY.org). Advocate for safe & sustainable transportation, housing, and a better Arlington VA / DC region
@auguststreet.ca
they/them ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐๐๐๐ฒ๐ท organizer/staff @ttcriders.bsky.social + transit policy & research. mapmaking+graphic design for fun and for work. posts are my own. ๐ toronto โ๏ธ๐๏ธ auguststreet.ca
@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
@fatimabsyed.bsky.social
Ontario reporter for The Narwhal. Vice-president of the Canadian Association of Journalists. Springsteen, space, sports, sweets
@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
@davidho.bsky.social
Climate scientist; ocean carbon cycle and climate solutions. Founder, Bamboo Bike Project; Co-founder and Chief Science Officer, @cworthy.bsky.social; Professor, University of Hawaiสปi at Mฤnoa. https://linktr.ee/david_ho
@rethinkplaces.bsky.social
Misc musings of urban strategistโฆland use, retail, transpo, lighting(!), placemaking, real estate development, and peopleโฆ with a few random acts of photography thrown in! (Finally making the move from Twitterโฆ starting from scratch again!) views=my own
@chellers.bsky.social
discord mod ๐ megatower megafan ๐ brick wielding pedestrian ๐งฑ obnoxious cyclist ๐ตโโ๏ธ transit lover ๐ sometimes I drive ๐ living with my parents ๐ก
@theterroirist.bsky.social
Wine, Politics, M:TG, Derby, Urban Affairs, Travel. Probably bad puns. All views expressed here are actually yours; sorry, I don't make the rules. they/them Toronto based, but I get around.
@lucymaloney.bsky.social
City Councillor with OneCity Vancouver. Road safety advocate, former environmental lawyer, cyclist, parent. Working for you.
@annebonds.bsky.social
Professor of Geography and Urban Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Editor, Urban Geography. Mapping Racism & Resistance in Milwaukee County
@ypsherm.bsky.social
Geographer focused on international migration, immigrant receptivity, & housing justice in Canadian/US cities esp. less favoured regions, small & mid-sized cities. Prof at Memorial U., St. Johnโs | Mom. Child Care advocate.
@desireefields.bsky.social
Digital experiments with property+place, platform financial subjectivity, critical economic geography Economic geographer, UC Berkeley. Trustee, Urban Studies Foundation. Editor, Environment and Planning A+Housing, Theory and Society
@segbydesign.bsky.social
Using data and remastered historic photography to document the destruction of communities of color by redlining, urban renewal, freeways, and disinvestment; also highlighting solutions https://www.segregationbydesign.com/
@ayanassar.bsky.social
@katederickson.bsky.social
Professor at U of Minnesota Geog & Director, Urban Studies; Managing Editor, Society & Space; Instructor, Stillwater State Prison
@ctemenos.bsky.social
Reader in Geography @ Manchester & UKRI Future Leader Fellow. Urban Crisis, Cities, Policy Mobilities, Health & Drugs, Climate & Social Justice. Views my own #urban #geography
@mevaldini.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science at Portland State University and Co-Editor of the Journal of Women, Politics & Policy. Nerd, morbid optimist, rabid bike enthusiast, and great lover of sandwiches.
@siglinde99.bsky.social
Interested in Canadian and world political issues, the environment, active transport, swimming and medieval history.
@foxyjewishmama.bsky.social
Sammy (she/her) Chicago-based architecture worker, cyclist, pedestrian, transit rider.
@bigmoodenergy.bsky.social
transit opinions โข trying to post ceramics โข learning bass โข your ad here โข she/her
@kklevine.bsky.social
Transportation librarian, academic worker, unionist, bike person.