Urbanism, bikes, transit, housing, and more! This starter pack is intended to include orgs, researchers, city planners, housing experts, creator activist's--basically the folks we should be listening to their expert advice.
People and orgs who post on Active Travel and who I probably know from Twitter. Includes trains and buses. Mostly UK but a couple of EU people too - please do suggest more.
Co-curated by Brent Toderian & Tom Flood! People & orgs that are ESPECIALLY effective at TRANSFORMING the broad public conversation about better city-making, smarter transportation, & equitable cities for people. This pack is about changing minds, branding ideas, & new ways to break thru the noise!
Curated by a 33 year international urbanist & city planner. These are many of the city champions I’ve run across so far, but I’m still discovering more. Planning, urban design, architecture, transportation, housing, politics, place-making, sustainability, livability, equity, affordability & more.
Hyper-curated accounts: Journalists, very cool people. Canadians. Get 'em all: 1 go.bsky.app/HqmVU7Z 2 go.bsky.app/4CHUihS 3 go.bsky.app/31b7WqR 4 go.bsky.app/9c3sqg4 5 go.bsky.app/9eJH5cF 6 go.bsky.app/8K8AfG4 7 go.bsky.app/DDFyJyf 8 go.bsky.app/7iqWg9D 10 go.bsky.app/GaoS6MJ
Vancouver and BC centric (give or take) Starter Pack.
a collection of accounts and feeds that are filled with bike related posts you can find more bike enjoyers below: our 1st starter pack: https://go.bsky.app/EwkMJoT our 2nd starter pack: https://go.bsky.app/M5zxt75 our 3rd starter pack: https://go.bsky.app/ACnBBBu
Follow important Calgary news makers and sources.
Folks from Vancouver and around BC that are a must-follow for food, humour, arts, news, nature, photography and more from the 250 and 604.
(Heavy on North American posters. Please recommend leading women and people of color, especially from other areas of the world!)
Best accounts to follow on all things car-dependency, urbanism, and how to make our cities more safe and liveable.
Scientifiques, journalistes, ONGs, visionnaires, militant.e.s pour la préservation du présent et la sauvegarde du futur. Suggestions bienvenues. #Climat #Transition #Biosphère 🌱⚡️☀️🌍
Highly recommended accounts to follow for Canadian news, politics, democracy, climate, polycrises
Come join the conversation with YIMBYs, planners, architects, advocates, and city builders of all kinds.
Trying to help generate new connections via good follows for a broad spectrum of people whose interests relate to all things cities.
Don't listen to these people who want to ruin your neighborhood with more housing!
Academics/researchers/practitioners/communicators/road users discussing the how and why of supporting walking, biking and rolling.
Learn about sustainable cities and hear from the top experts and organizations working to build cities that are good for people, nature and the climate. Curated by World Resources Institute's Cities program (WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities).
Experts, practitioners, activists, media, elected leaders, organizations involved with better transportation, especially in cities. Walking, biking, public transit/transport, EVs, active transport, micro-mobility, multi-modal, etc.
Placemaking leaders are just starting to join Bluesky. Help us build the placemaking learning, advocacy, and action conversation and community here. Let us know of others joining!
A Bluesky Mixtape of People and Feeds who educate, inspire, and inform me on All Things Urban and Housing. My deepest apologies if I missed you! This List is organic and intended to be updated over time. and read this too: https://mashable.com/article/getting-started-on-bluesky-guide
People who ride bikes, advocate for safer active transportation, or are generally friendly to active transportation in Vancouver, BC, and neighbouring cities.
Some of our favourite feeds and people with an interest in all aspects of road safety: transport research, policy and management; advanced driving and motorcycling; road design and engineering; human factors when driving; Highway Code and police Roadcraft / Motorcycle Roadcraft publications.
People and organizations against Ontario's Bill 212 - The Rip Up Toronto's Bike Lanes and Pave a Highway Through the Greenbelt Act Let us know if you'd like to be added!
This is a pack of many of the key Canadian urbanists I’ve found here so far. This isn’t the first pack on this specific subject, and it won’t be the last, but this is mine. City-building practitioners, elected leaders, activists, media, organizations. Let me know if I’ve missed some!
Diverse perspectives on the past, present and future of cities! Not exhaustive!
A pack of noteworthy Canadian urbanists and organizations compiled by the Council For Canadian Urbanism. City planners, urban designers, architects, landscape architects, transportation planners, city-building activists, media, elected leaders, developers/builders and more.
My initial compilation of the urbanists on Blue Sky
The Final Fantasy of starterpacks! Look at all of them, or you'll miss really good people 🍁 1 go.bsky.app/HqmVU7Z 2 go.bsky.app/4CHUihS 3 go.bsky.app/31b7WqR 5 go.bsky.app/9eJH5cF 6 go.bsky.app/8K8AfG4 7 go.bsky.app/DDFyJyf 8 go.bsky.app/7iqWg9D 9 go.bsky.app/EVhijFP 10 go.bsky.app/GaoS6MJ
Here are people and feeds I've found really useful - have a look!
Interesting politics-adjacent people to get you started.
Choice stuff
List of those working on better and more climate-friendly urban policies: passivhaus, decarbonized buildings, sustainable and active mobility, family-friendly, affordable, & happy cities
*AF - that’s my initials 😎 #urbanism #urbanist #sustainablecities #greencities #antisprawl #housing #upzon* #transitnerds #parkingreform #housingjustice #affordability #YIMBY #mobilityjustice
People who do interesting things in or about the built environment - whether that be architecture, landscape, planning, whatever Part 1
A starter pack for everything bicycle on Bluesky!
Friends and colleagues that are connecting communities one adaptable solution at a time.
Bigger and better than Starter Pack I: Bike people, slow streets advocates, urbanists, and some fun.
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.
Schwerpunkt auf Accounts aus Österreich und Wien. Start am 11.11.: 55 Accounts Update am 12.11.: +
This is a starter pack of people or accounts that I think are great follows, to help get you started and rebuild your community on BlueSky.
smittycanada1 🇨🇦 Starter Pack II of great Canadian accounts
The rest