Canada's Land Planning Visionaries
Curated account of Canadian land planners, urbanists, ruralists, city builders, planners, developers, and everything in between. Climate change, economics, and the people you love in 'em.
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@netheryplanning.bsky.social
@cbailey6.bsky.social
Scientist, cyclist, knitter. But only 2 out of 3 at any one time. 🔰 📌 Toronto
@lanrickbennett.bsky.social
Working within the active transportation, environmental protection, affordable housing and placemaking sphere. Always advocating #BikeTO #TransformTO #BLM #TweetsAreMineByDefault
@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.
@sullivanray.bsky.social
Affordable housing geek. Day job with the Canadian Housing & Renewal Association. Posts are personal. So is cycling.
@metroscapes.ca
Not all those who wander are lost. I explore Metroscapes, where natural and built environments collide. 🌐 https://metroscapes.ca ▶️ https://youtube.com/@metroscapes
@cafedujord.bsky.social
Housing 🏠 + transit 🚎 + climate 🌎 President: Peninsula Young Democrats Lead Member: Peninsula for Everyone Work: Greenbelt Alliance Good opinions mine, bad opinions someone else's. YIMBY.
@anotherglassbox.bsky.social
Building hater/appreciator out of Toronto. He/they. Hates your neighbourhood’s character, yes, specifically yours.
@jm-mcgrath.bsky.social
Ontario politics and policy for TVO. Writer and Podcast co-host, #onpoli jm_mcgrath.01 on signal
@graphicmatt.com
City columnist, contributing to the Toronto Star & writing the award-winning City Hall Watcher newsletter. A lot about Toronto Politics and then some nerd stuff. Humber College prof. (he/him)
@dtkmelissa.bsky.social
Passionate about...just about everything! Especially Waterloo Region. 🇨🇦 Author of CitifiedWR blog https://citified.substack.com/ Co-founder of Waterloo Region Yes In My Backyard "Kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight" https://linktr.ee/dtkmelissa
@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).
@derricksimpson.bsky.social
Transportation and Board Chair, Centretown Community Association | Carleton Journalism Grad | Ottawa Urbanism Book Club | Substack: Improving Ottawa
@cameronkroetsch.bsky.social
Proud downtown #HamOnt resident, queer, he or him, Ward 2 City Councillor; all tweets from me; https://linktr.ee/ward2hamilton
@wrayaj.bsky.social
Research Scientist, The University of Western Ontario. RPP Candidate. Healthy Communities. GIScience. Urban Development. President of Town and Gown Association of Ontario, Board on International TGA.
@stateofthecity.bsky.social
Was @stateofthecity on Twitter. Veteran of a B-Grade, Film Noir genre of politics known as "local government." Current gig: second tour of duty in the Winnipeg Mayor's Office. Hometowns: Victoria, Winnipeg, Toronto. Working on 'Debt City' (see debt.city)
@cactieater.bsky.social
Probably not a bot, I promise. #HamOnt | Let's talk about biking, urban planning, and organizing.
@trainguy89.bsky.social
Toronto < - > Waterloo. Designing better streets and fighting for change! Transportation Planner. 🚲 🚃 🎓UW Planning ‘27. Opinions are mine only of course.
@ravikahlon.bsky.social
BC Minister for Housing and Municipal affairs MLA North Delta Chair, Cabinet Committee on Tariff Response Two-time 🇨🇦 Olympian Coach, Mentor and Proud Dad.
@philmarfisi.bsky.social
Sidewalk enthusiast. Other interests: public policy, housing, urbanism, Waterloo Region, Ontario politics, #cdnpoli, Star Trek, music, news media, international relations, and the Oxford comma. Democracy is good, actually.
@tomflood.bsky.social
Strategy/Creative/Content/Branding @ rovélo creative. Lectures & workshops on reframing the mainstream narrative around road safety/road violence and active transportation but mostly trying to catch up on vacuuming. Creativebyrovelo.com
@whiskeyhorse.bsky.social
Toronto Litigator, YIMBY urbanist. Hobbyist posting about cities, energy policy, law and new tech.
@martyn.bsky.social
Toronto. Vancouver. Safe streets. Strong towns. Next-generation cities and mobility. Progressive politics. Craft beer. Co-founder of betternorthshore.ca. Work: martynschmoll.com
@mikeboos.ca
Citizen of Kitchener. I make noise about walking, cycling, transit, and land use. Staff engineer in developer productivity. He/him
@how-sen.com
Toronto urban environmentalist. 20+ years in climate activism. From Etobicoke. ADHDer. Fancy degrees from McGill and Yale. Posts are my own. https://how-sen.com/link
@arnkeeling.bsky.social
He/him. Settler. Geographer at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. Historical+social aspects of mining in Northern 🇨🇦. Co-author, Mining Country: https://lorimer.ca/adults/product/mining-country.
@arieltroster.com
City Councillor for #SomersetWard in Ottawa. Queer Jew. A better city is possible. Let’s build it together. 🏳️🌈
@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
@denisagar.bsky.social
Transit polls well. We use that popularity to push for more reliable and abundant transit. Let's make it better than driving. I'm in Vancouver - unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ land. Executive Director of @movementyvr.bsky.social
@whereisgraeme.bsky.social
Urban Planner in Development and Citybuilding (Precincts, Districts, Affordable Housing) True North, Strong and FREE 🇨🇦 When you exploit systems they end. Be my friend: https://youtube.com/@where.is.graeme
@mplsfietser.bike
Radical localist, urbanist, ecosocialist. I love cities 🏙️, bikes 🚲, trains 🚊, and cats 🐈⬛. Transportation planner for safe streets & healthy equitable communities. YIMBY. Union. Board @streets.mn Neurospicy. Ukraine➡️Mpls. Agender/gender apathetic. 🇺🇦🍉
@coprolithic.bsky.social
GIS wonk occasionally kidnapped by archaeologists, palaeontologists and fish people. Photographer, knapper, and all weather cyclist in a city reputed to be winter 11 months per year. #GIS #archaeology #climate #cycling #yegbike #yegdt #cats #photography
@mikeantos.bsky.social
Watershed Social Scientist @Stantec. Hydrosocial geography, sci-fi, native gardens, Liverpool FC. Proud Californian.
@geodarcy.bsky.social
Doctor of Human Geography and Urban Planning, rider of bikes, and YouTuber at the intersection of the two. https://www.youtube.com/c/bikebikenudgenudge
@dshepyeg.bsky.social
MLA for Edmonton-City Centre • Shadow Minister for Public Safety & Emergency Services • Cyclist • Musician • Mild Comic Book Geek •
@yegwxnerdery.bsky.social
Weather nerdery for Edmonton Alberta, with side discussions of nearby rural stations, and other big Canadian cities.
@justindraper.bsky.social
Dad, urbanist, musician, home bartender, pun enthusiast. Director of Communications and External Relations for the Mayor of Edmonton. He/Him
@stundenbower.bsky.social
Environmental historian with a focus on the northern Great Plains/Canadian Prairies. Employed at the University of Alberta. Executive member and editor at @nichecanada.bsky.social. Settler living in Treaty Six Territory and Métis homelands. She/Her
@rylangraham.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, School of Planning + Sustainability at the University of Northern British Columbia | sustainable cities, infill, downtowns, 🇨🇦 mid-sized cities | 🌾 born ⛰️ living
@jfatkey.bsky.social
Housing advocate by day and night. CEO at BCNPHA, Director at Rental Protection Fund, Community Housing Transformation Centre, Boann Social Impact, Community Housing Coverage, and Chartered Institute of Housing Canada.
@evanboyce.ca
vive le Canada 🇨🇦 working in renewable energy 🔌💡 hobbying in ✨opinions✨ energy, housing, cities, transit, cycling, politics 📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
@growtogetheryeg.bsky.social
Advocating for a greener Edmonton with more homes and less sprawl. growtogetheryeg.com
@leospalteholz.bsky.social
Victoria YYJ. I post mostly about 1. Housing advocacy with @homesforliving.ca 2. Housing market https://househuntvictoria.ca 3. Renewables, climate, EVs. Real job in engineering education
@davethompsonvic.bsky.social
Housing, climate, urbanism, transportation, communities consulting. Also Victoria BC City Councillor, CRD Director. Civil discourse and good governance. Pragmatic progressive. Punkthäuser fan. My own views only. ☄️⏳yyj 🇨🇦
@mdruker.app
Cities, justice, bad jokes. Dad. Immigrant 🇨🇦⬅️🇺🇸⬅️Ru. Staff eng on break, advocate at @tritag.ca, bsky tinkerer at @feeds.mdruker.app. he/him. Support 🇺🇦 📍 Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario New here? My tips: https://bsky.app/profile/mdruker.app/post/3ljofscojis2j
@wyman10.bsky.social
William C. Wonders Map Collection, University of Alberta Library. Curation by Wyman Laliberté (he/him) (settler on Treaty 6 land). WCW Map Collection on Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/wcw #spatial #maps #cartography #gis #qgis
@rolheiser.bsky.social
assistant professor urban/real estate economics. cities, bikes, plants, dogs, cats. York U | MIT CRE | www.lyndseyrolheiser.com
@mbonsma.bsky.social
Bikes + data, UofT biophys PhD, mom. I post about bikes and safe streets, local politics, and sometimes science. She/her.
@alexbozikovic.bsky.social
Architecture critic @theglobeandmail.com. Also author, University of Toronto Daniels Faculty instructor, husband, father of two city kids. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/authors/alex-bozikovic/
@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.
@mikepmoffatt.bsky.social
Co-Host, "Missing Middle". Husband. Father. Brother. Son. Economist. Housing guy. I used to do other stuff.
@visionzerovancouver.ca
Every year in Metro Vancouver, car crashes kill 100 people. We can get to zero by demanding that governments design transportation systems to put safety first. http://linkin.bio/visionzeroyvr
@thebachelorbowl.bsky.social
Getting stoned, watching The Bachelor. Boycotting Loblaws. Eating Billionaires. Basic Income for all Canadians. 🇨🇦 All in a days work. 😎
@aaronbinder.com
Director betterwayalliance.ca | Canada's progressive business group 2X Business Owner | Serial cyclist Toronto | Hamilton | Indonesia | Canada Highly professional human desiring bad boy status.
@nicktsergas.ca
Editor @CanadaHealthwatch.ca ▪️"Obviously not a very good journalist." Work in Toronto Star, Canadian Affairs, Calgary Herald & Important Context Signal 💬 @nicktsergas.01 📁 https://muckrack.com/nicktsergas
@julespenner.bsky.social
Musician, mother, arts worker. I play violin with Do Make Say Think, Broken Social Scene, JP Hoe, etc. Made radio/podcasts with The Vinyl Cafe and William Prince. I tend to post about Winnipeg, biking, urbanism, and politics. https://linktr.ee/JuliePenner
@thebikinglawyer.bsky.social
Lawyers for injured cyclists. Advocates for change: www.thebikinglawyer.ca Bikes and anti-racism.
@ffsafestreets.bsky.social
We are people whose loved ones were struck and killed on #TODeadlyStreets, and injured crash survivors. We work to end #RoadViolence in Toronto and offer monthly #PeerSupport meetings. More info: www.ffsafestreets.ca + http://linktr.ee/ffsafestreets
@mattgurney.bsky.social
Toronto-based Canadian journalist. Co-founder and editor of The Line (readtheline.ca). Columnist and some-time reporter at various places.
@moreneighboursto.bsky.social
Toronto's pro-housing movement. More Neighbours in more neighbourhoods, with access to more jobs, more infrastructure, and more culture than ever before.
@normsworld.bsky.social
Former NDP Candidate Spadina-Harbourfront & Co-Chair Ontario Place for All, volunteer @SaveOSC. Chair @NoJetsTO. Former School Trustee, TO council candidate norm@votenorm.ca 🚲 VoteNorm.ca
@moretransitso.bsky.social
Advocates for more frequent, reliable & integrated transit networks for riders across Southern Ontario. 🚍🚊🚆🚇 🔗 Links: https://linktr.ee/mtso
@spacing.bsky.social
Spacing.ca / Toronto urbanism uncovered in award-winning mag/web/books/podcasts. Spacing Radio podcasts: spacingradio.bsky.social Spacing Vancouver: spacingvancouver.bsky.social Spacing Store: spacingstore.bsky.social
@plannersean.bsky.social
Urban planning shit posting, disc golf, assorted other nonsense and garbage. @plannersean on Twitter
@climateinstitute.bsky.social
Canada’s leading climate change policy research organization. climateinstitute.ca
@justinling.ca
Uh-oh. Freelance journalist in @thestar.com, @wired.com, @foreignpolicy.com, @thewalrus.ca. Subscribe to my newsletter: www.bugeyedandshameless.com Signal: JustinLing.42
@shawnmicallef.bsky.social
Local tosser Books author (New: Stroll!) Toronto Star column writer Spacing Magazine co-founder U of T instructor Trying to do it a bit different here than the last place. Links to books, etc: https://linktr.ee/shawnmicallef 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🤘🏼
@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.
@jensvb.bsky.social
Data, analysis, visualization, #CensusMapper, transportation cyclist. 📍Vancouver, BC
@calgaryclimatehub.ca
A diverse group of Calgarians coordinating & mobilizing local climate change action. #yyc #yyccc #ClimateChange #ClimateAction
@rebeccajtiffany.bsky.social
Transit & urbanism + public health + disability mobility #LongCovid & #Cleanair awareness advocate Alexandria/DC + OH&Toronto-adjacent YIMBY Find me everywhere online @rebeccajtiffany
@brenttoderian.bsky.social
Global advisor on better cities, city planning, transportation & urban change. City planner + urbanist leading @ToderianUW.bsky.social. Past Chief Planner for Vancouver BC. Past/founding President of @CanUrbanism.bsky.social. International speaker & media.
@aleach.ca
Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Alberta. Interested in climate change, constitutional law, and energy infrastructure. Find me here or on the web at aleach.ca.
@rmtransit.bsky.social
World Traveller - Programmer - Retired YouTuber. Passionate about making the world better. https://cinqpersonnes.substack.com/
@netheryplanning.bsky.social
A mighty little land use planning consultancy, based in Canada🍁, serving all clients private and public, big and also mighty like us. https://www.netheryplanning.ca Canadian Planning Starter Pack: https://go.bsky.app/J7qtzqT