Health + Built Environment Starter Pack
People exploring the intersection of the built environment and public health. Suggestions welcome.
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@schaeffer-s.bsky.social
@jeanbeaudoin.bsky.social
Montréalais, designer urbain, architecte et ingénieur. Je pratique, enseigne et milite pour la transformation de nos rues et nos quartiers. I design, teach and advocate for Mainstreet transformation. « Changeons le monde, une rue à la fois. »
@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.
@guillbernal.bsky.social
Spaces into Places. Founder of Fundación Placemaking México & Executive Director of The Place Institute. Watch my first film: www.theplaceman.org
@nourhanbassam.bsky.social
Defender of Women’s Bodies & Rights in Cities | Feminist Urbanist | Professor of Feminist Geography | Author & Director The Gendered City | Feminist Placemaking.
@chppc.bsky.social
Based in @ihr.bsky.social, @sasnews.bsky.social. Engaged, outward-facing and co-produced research into place and history: rural to urban & parish to metropolis. Home to Victoria County History & Layers of London. Posts by team.
@placesjournal.bsky.social
Architecture, landscape, urbanism. Independent nonprofit public scholarship on the built environment. Free & accessible to all. Read: http://placesjournal.org Sign up: placesjournal.org/newsletter Donate: https://placesjournal.org/donate/
@thrivingplaces.bsky.social
Centre for Thriving Places is a place-based not-for-profit consultancy offering strategic support, research, training and tools that help put the wellbeing of people, place and planet centre stage.
@placemakingx.bsky.social
🌏 Global network of #Placemaking leaders facilitating collective learning, advocacy & action for #PublicSpaces. www.PlacemakingX.org
@sociallifeproject.bsky.social
Highlighting what makes #publicspaces thrive. Sister program of @PlacemakingX.bsky.social. By Fred Kent & Kathy Madden, founders & 40+ year leaders of @PPSPlacemaking.bsky.social. www.SocialLifeProject.org
@kilrwat.bsky.social
Father, Husband, Athlete, Urban Gardener. Tikkun Olam. Market Transformation--Founder of LEED for Buildings and SWEEP for Solid Waste. Bringing to market an industry-changing technology to recycle 90% of municipal waste Boob-bots Blocked and Reported.
@neillewisjr.bsky.social
Behavioral Scientist & Science Communicator. Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences and Associate Professor of Communication, Medicine, and Public Policy at Cornell University. More here: neillewisjr.com Personal account
@brianjaffe.bsky.social
Pro-housing, pro-abundance, pro-democracy in Northern CA. Housing 🏠, Health ⚕️, Education 📚, & Safety ⛑️ for all. End corruption ⬇️ Get results ⬆️.
@worldresources.bsky.social
WRI is a global research organization working to improve people’s lives, protect #nature, and halt #climatechange. 🌍📊 👉 Learn more: https://go.wri.org/mmTUco
@womeninmobility.bsky.social
#Mobility #Future #Urbanization | Community for women working in the mobility sector |🇩🇪 🇪🇺 www.womeninmobility.org
@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
@samwake.bsky.social
Loves streets. Set them free. Sheffield. Abolition. What if…? Works at Living Streets. Free free 🍉 🔗 sam.wakeling.me
@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.
@dorianmoore.bsky.social
Architect and urbanist dedicated to enhancing cities through observation, documentation, and Implementation.
@lauragmitchell.com
Board President @ourstreetsmn.org Parent & safe streets advocate 🚲🚶🏻🚌 Founder of mplscargobikelibrary.com Minneapolis, MN lauragmitchell.com
@nina-eliz.bsky.social
PhD candidate, comm & urban sustainability | mixed methods civic media & political participation researcher | urban planner (AICP) | #firstgen 🎓 | she/her
@kevinjkircher.com
Engineering prof (mechanical + electrical) at a big Midwest state school. Energy, climate, buildings, power grid, control, optimization, data science. He/him. https://kevinjkircher.com/ Email: my last name at purdue dot edu
@alerigolon.bsky.social
Associate prof of urban planning. Research on green space equity, green gentrification, climate adaptation, and health equity. Love SLC, my family, and the great outdoors. Opinions (good or bad) are my own 🇮🇹🇺🇸 🌩️👀 rJgnW3igNgz7
@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.
@mbonsma.bsky.social
Bikes + data, UofT biophys PhD, mom. I post about bikes and safe streets, local politics, and sometimes science. She/her.
@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
@novakovicto.bsky.social
Writer + Editor | Architecture + Cities | Senior Editor, Azure Magazine
@scottford.bsky.social
Deputy Director of the Downtown Sacramento Partnership. Champion of sustainable growth models, walkable/rollable communities, and the foundational importance of vibrant downtown neighborhoods as drivers for regional prosperity.
@citizen-cate.bsky.social
Fighting against car dependency, one unused parking spot at a time. Senior researcher at @Sightline.
@berkie1.bsky.social
Supporting a new generation of walkable neighborhoods with housing abundance, active public realms, & thriving small business ecosystems. Founder remainplaces.com
@davidzipper.bsky.social
Senior Fellow @ MIT Mobility Initiative and Contributing Writer @ Vox, focused on transport, cities and tech. Words in The Atlantic, CityLab, WaPo, etc. https://linktr.ee/davidzipper Newsletter, speaking, writing and advisory work: http://davidzipper.com
@awhale.bsky.social
phd student at Columbia Mailman SPH, social/spatial epidemiology of transportation injury, firearm violence, and SGM populations, warriors basketball, he/him
@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
@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
@jessersfeld.bsky.social
Torontonian🇨🇦 delivering transport for London🇬🇧 Sustainable Urban Development at Oxford, Chartered Engineer from CIHT and UWaterloo Jokes are unfortunately my own 🩷💜💙
@urbancyclinginstitute.org
Our mission is to serve, teach, inspire and impact current and future urban professionals in our quest for actionable steps towards safe, inclusive, active mobility.
@liammcgrath.bsky.social
Forecasting & modelling for sustainable cities Transport for London🚇 Director at Leathermarket CBS affordable housing 🏢 Director se1.solar Community Energy ☀️ Urban history podcast yeoldeguide.com Personal opinions liamkmcgrath.com
@mnolangray.bsky.social
the once and future city planner // legislative director for california yimby // AICP // proud kentuckian // #BBN // buy my book ❤
@dublincycling.bsky.social
For safer, greener, more sociable streets! dublincycling.ie
@humantransit.bsky.social
Public transit planning consultant and commentator. Author of the book “Human Transit” and the blog HumanTransit.org. The consulting firm is jarrettwalker.com. Also obsessed with literature and plants.
@qagggy.bsky.social
📍Seattle/London. Board member at Seattle Neighborhood Greenways. Opinions amirite. Safe, sustainable, equitable, healthy cities. Dongho Chang superfan. (he/him)
@lindsayschack.bsky.social
Architect @ Love Schack Architecture in Bozeman, Montana & Driggs, Idaho. Experts in passive house design methods using natural, low-carbon materials; AIA Small Project Design KC Board Chair 2023, 2025 PHNetwork Board www.loveschackarchitecture.com
@holz-bau.bsky.social
architect @ Larchlab.com (Seattle) activist for: car-light climate adaptive cities w/ low carbon + passivhaus buildings, social housing Author, 'Building for People' (Island Press, 12/2024: https://islandpress.org/books/building-people)
@thetransitguy.com
I like trains and walkable neighborhoods. https://linktr.ee/thetransitguy
@leahstokes.bsky.social
Professor of climate + energy policy at UCSB. Alumni of MIT, Columbia and UToronto. Hosts "A Matter of Degrees" podcast. Cuts carbon pollution! Proudly 🇨🇦 Gardener 🌱 leahstokes.com
@cityobservatory.bsky.social
Original research and commentary on what matters for city success.
@henrygrabar.bsky.social
staff writer @slate, author of Paved Paradise, editor of The Future of Transportation, Loeb Fellow '24 henry at grabar at slate dot com
@jvipondmd.bsky.social
an emergency doctor desperately trying to save the future (and the present) for his children
@darkskyambassador.bsky.social
I want to preserve the beauty & integrity of our night skies. Focusing mainly on raising awareness about the effects of light pollution, not only on astronomy but also on wildlife, human health & energy waste. - Dr Chris Spencer (aka @PixelatedDad)
@geographynicole.bsky.social
Researching solutions to address urban air pollution and create healthier cities💭 Views my own. 📍Currently found at Imperial College London and World Economic Forum🇬🇧🇨🇭 Previously Birmingham Urban Observatory, WM-Air, University of Birmingham 🐂
@judithnurmann.bsky.social
Urban Planner in Hamburg | bodenpolitische Sprecherin @architects4future | fights #HousingCrisis | #CitiesforPeople | demografischer Wandel
@matthew-b.bsky.social
Pro-housing advocate in Colorado here to discuss housing, land use, and tax policy. #YIMBY #coleg #colorado
@myurbangen.bsky.social
Mostly Urbanism. From the east coast. Planner at Kimley-Horn in Orlando. Views are my own. http://myurbangeneration.wordpress.com
@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.
@natestorring.bsky.social
City observer, movie lover, errant Canadian. ⛲️ Co-Executive Director, @ppsplacemaking.bsky.social 📖 Co-Editor, brookings.edu/books/hyperlocal 🎧 Co-Host, @simpsonsfilmpod.bsky.social 🏡 Resident, Lambertville, NJ
@ad-mastro.bsky.social
Writing with a focus on urbanism, culture, and popular history. I write The Deleted Scenes, a daily, mostly-urbanism newsletter on Substack. a.delmastro2@gmail.com.
@ronitadancis.bsky.social
Trains, 🚍, cities, plazas, ☕️, beer, bikes, 🛴 walking. (She / her )
@sharethecities.bsky.social
Share The Cities. We are yes in my back yard for social housing & tenant led organizing. Public Broadband & Public Bathrooms. Femme-focused urbanism. #Seattle #CoastSalishLand https://linktr.ee/sharethecities
@urbanismspeakeasy.com
When I'm not engineering safe & healthy streets, I'm running my mouth about it. urbanismspeakeasy.com
@matthutchins.bsky.social
Seattle architect, urbanist and Planning Commissioner advocating for housing options, 15-minute cities and sustainable construction. AIA Seattle President, Seattle Design Festival President, AIA Strategic Council. Passivhaus designer.
@climateandtransit.bsky.social
A focus on city planning,transit planning and sustainability! “Train good and car bad!”
@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
@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
@nextcity.org
Next City’s journalism centers marginalized voices while amplifying solutions to the problems that oppress people in cities.
@wrirosscities.bsky.social
Helping cities make big ideas happen. A program of @worldresources.bsky.social. Producer of http://TheCityFix.org. Home of #PrizeForCities.
@charlesincities.bsky.social
Author, Happy City. Founder, Happy Cities. But speaking only here for myself! Design + social trust. 🧠🏙️🌈🏔️
@15minutecity.com
The #15MinuteCity: putting people at the center of urban transformation. Posts by Dan Luscher.
@canurbanism.bsky.social
The Council for Canadian Urbanism #CanU is a national organization of leading multi-disciplinary urbanists championing better city-building coast-to-coast! linktr.ee/canurbanism Conseil pour l'Urbanisme Canadien
@americanfietser.com
"Fietser" (Dutch) 'feet-ser' Meaning: A Person Who Bikes For Transportation; Infrastructure, City Design, E-Cargo Bike Ambassador, Brasil 🇧🇷🔗, Train & Aviation Enjoyer
@jeffspeck.bsky.social
Urban Planner, Partner in Speck Dempsey, author of Walkable City, Walkable City Rules, and other stuff I'd like you to read.
@sethdklein.bsky.social
Team Lead, Climate Emergency Unit; author of "A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency"; columnist with Canada's National Observer; former social justice think tank director https://www.sethklein.ca https://www.climateemergencyunit.ca
@marcusxgrant.bsky.social
Just starting out in this place. Editor-in-Chief of Cities & Health journal. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rcah20
@jonburkeuk.bsky.social
Energy ⚡️ Waste ♻️ Transport 🚲 Public Realm 🌳 Words in HuffPost, Big Issue, Architects Journal. Climate Emergency UK Advisory Board. Enquiries - jonburkeuk@protonmail.com www.jonburkeuk.com
@benakl.bsky.social
Spatial and Policy Planner Resident of South Auckland Cities Skylines Player and Snob
@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. 🇺🇦🍉
@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.
@kentlundberg.bsky.social
Sustainable transport and car optional cities. I lead a small company focused on public transport, urban design, parking reform and investment advice. Auckland, New Zealand.
@studonovan.bsky.social
Economist researching cities, transport, housing, & energy. I focus on New Zealand & Australia, with European dalliances. And some chaff.
@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
@jdeheij.bsky.social
15-minute cities advocacy | Urbanism | Sustainability | 🇳🇱🇳🇿 📍Ōtepoti Dunedin, NZ
@carlosmorenofr.bsky.social
Professor IAE-Paris1 Sorbonne French Academy of Technologies Happy Proximities pionneer 15-Minute City concept creator 15 books in 11 languages MultiAwarded 🏅🏆 Sigma Xi Scientific research honor society Fellow Since 1 July 2024 ❌X/Twitter Fr En Es It
@sustainable2050.bsky.social
38 years of experience in the energy transition. Building Common Futures, a new energy transition consultancy. Posts about energy, climate, Ukraine & more. Also on Mastodon. Reposts not an endorsement, views my own. #EnergySky
@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
@schaeffer-s.bsky.social
Architect | Prof. Architecture & Public Health Sciences | Aerospace Engineer @NASA | Soccer Coach | Dad (girl, labs, and a tuxedo cat) | All opinions my own | Starter pack: https://go.bsky.app/VgPkxMC