The Urban Truth Collective is a creative, evidence-based collaboration launched to champion the truth and fight disinformation about how to make better cities for people. Formed by @brenttoderian.bsky.social, @tomflood.bsky.social & @grantennis.bsky.social

Original research and commentary on what matters for city success.

Seattle-based writer + editor covering climate, cities, housing, transportation, and all the ways they intersect.

Thinktanking on housing + democracy + clean energy Opinions—all mine. Or yours, recycled—as also mine. Zero endorsements here. #Housing #affordability talking points galore 🏘️🎯➡️ https://www.sightline.org/the-pro-homes-messaging-toolkit/ #Parking feed ⬇️

APTA leads public transportation in a new mobility era, advocating to connect and build thriving communities.

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.

The #15MinuteCity: putting people at the center of urban transformation. Posts by Dan Luscher.

A focus on city planning,transit planning and sustainability! “Train good and car bad!”

Writing, thinking, and speaking about transport, cities, and tech. Contributing Writer @ Bloomberg and cohost @ Look Both Ways w/David & Wes. Working on a book about congestion pricing. linktr.ee/davidzipper Newsletter & contact info: www.davidzipper.com

Architect and urban planner since 1987, works from MDE Urban Lab. Medellín. www.mdeurbanlab.com perez.jaramillo@mdeurbanlab.com

Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Specialist journalist: WIRED.com and more. Press Gazette Transport Journalist of the Year 2018. Finalist: Travel Photographer of the Year 2024 https://authory.com/carltonreid Signal: carltonreid.67

Australian urbanist at large based in Brisbane, 46+ years experience. Founder Urban Mentors Collective. Co founder Ethos Urban, President Queensland Walks. Keen to make cities better and to help those who want to do that.

Professor IAE-Paris1 Sorbonne French Academy of Technologies Happy Proximities pionneer 15-Minute City concept creator 19 books in 11 languages MultiAwarded 🏅🏆 Sigma Xi Scientific research honor society Fellow Since 1 July 2024 ❌X/Twitter Fr En Es It

City Hall reporter for The Seattle Times. Send tips to: dkroman@seattletimes.com. Formerly Crosscut. Sorry for the baseball tweets.

Let's turn the Seattle city-owned "Jackson" Park 18-hole golf course into a free public green space! Let’s also house all our friends & neighbors, and take care of the salmon, beavers, orcas, & all animals who share our water. Learn more at jp4all.org.

Still out here building Seattle's Climate Justice Movement Join us: http://linktr.ee/350Seattle

Seattle area transit advocates. We also coordinate with other groups in the area to get minimum wage on the ballot and pass renter protections.

Organizing the tech community to advocate for affordable, sustainable and equitable cities. tech4housing.org

Author, Happy City. Founder, Happy Cities. I post on the connection between design + social trust. Cities, algorithms, laws and invisible systems. 🧠🏙️🌈🏔️

The Urban Institute is a research-to-impact institution founded on one simple idea: To improve lives and strengthen communities, we need practices and policies that work.

I run a newsletter/podcast called Volts about clean energy & politics. Subscribe & join the community at http://volts.wtf!

Writer. New Yorker. Co-host, The War on Cars podcast. Our book, Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile, is out now. lifeaftercars.com

Covering the movement to end car dependency and make America better for walking, biking, transit and more.

Urban planner, speaker, placemaker and professor of practice. Former NYC Parks Commissioner, Raleigh Chief Planning Officer and AICP & APA President. Passionate about people, planning, parks & public space.

Everyone should be able to move around their community with dignity and freedom. We are a national non-profit supporting change and changemakers at every level. Americawalks.org

We're changing *everything* about the North American pattern of development. Become a member today! strongtowns.org/membership

CNU envisions a world where cities, towns, and neighborhoods are intentionally designed and managed to foster community, preserve the natural environment, and improve the lives of all people. Learn more: cnu.org CNU 34: May 12-16, 2026! cnu.org/cnu34

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.

Writer, Learning Enthusiast, Urbanist, Optimist, Traveller, Canadian. Passionate about making the world better. https://cinqpersonnes.substack.com/ https://nextmetro.substack.com/

Renter, Latina, girl on the bus, ex-waitress, current Seattle City Councilmember for Position 8.

Seattle Urbanist. Mental Health Therapist LMHC 📚 Public Transit 🚊 Housing Density and Safe Street Walkability Advocate🏃 Walking 🏃every street in the city of Seattle one step at a time! Just wanna see a more loving and fair world. 🇺🇦 #Leftisbest

Mom who cares about kids, kindness, climate change and the common good. Let’s build more housing and stronger communities. Views are my own. WA State Rep. for the 1st Dist. who also loves her e-bike.

Patent attorney, astrophysicist, & Stack-and-Packist 🏙️🥑🔋⛷️. Ready to help enforce state housing law.

I've left to write other things & play bass. 🌸 Ex-Crosscut PBS, Seattle Times, Rapid City Journal, Casper Star-Tribune. PNW https://olympiajoe.substack.com/

Tech 4 Housing organizer. Trying to make Seattle a livable and welcoming place for all.

Personal account. All opinions expressed are mine alone. Live in Seattle and spend much of my time thinking about affordable housing, public education, and how to save our democracy. Campaign account is https://bsky.app/profile/linforseattle.bsky.social

Prof HEC Montreal 🇨🇦. Trained in 🇫🇷 🇬🇧. Urban and Real Estate economist / Professorship de recherche en économie urbaine et immobilière. Cited NYT, WSJ, FT, Bloomberg. #Econsky GitHub 👉 https://github.com/aouazad/ Website 👉 https://www.ouazad.com

WA State senator 22nd district. Let’s build livable, walkable communities. 🏘️

Seattle E-bike evangelist, economist, working on offshore wind, climate change, fisheries, and other ocean issues for the feds

Political analysis and reporting free of tribal prejudices. Sign up for our newsletters here: https://thebulwark.com/subscribe

Advocate for strong cities and equitable economies. Currently serving as Spokane’s unofficial ambassador to the Seattle region. 🌹🧦 🏗️🔰🚊 Writer @spokanerising.com, columnist @inlander.com, board @futurewise.bsky.social. USC MPP '21, SCU '16.

Architect. Pacific Northwest. We need more housing. 🧶

Volunteer-driven grassroots org that advocates for abundant housing in Seattle and beyond. Join us! https://linktr.ee/seattleyimby

associate editor at liberal currents. neonliberal. she/her.

Smart growth, housing, transportation, and climate policy in Colorado.

Economist researching cities, transport, housing, & energy. I focus on New Zealand & Australia, with European dalliances. And some chaff.

Senior Research Associate at @cayimby.bsky.social

Cities are life! Writing about Vancouver region urban issues, politics, housing + more for Globe and Mail mainly, BCBusiness, Vancouver mag, and a few more. Grand-daughter of Saskatchewan farmers, mom/step-mom to four millennials coping with housing market

I think it's good when cities are legal, and I work at Sightline Institute to make that happen. My takes on here, though, are no less than 100% mine.

Austinites advocating for abundant homes, reliable public transit, walkability, & safe streets for all!

Mayor of Bothell. Because the world won't change itself. Curious about land use and transportation. Rides a bike to boring meetings.

maryland policy director @ggwash.org, your east silver spring civic association VP, pit bull parent, elder emo, just out here getting cuter. no growth has to mean less is less. they/them. https://linktr.ee/justupthepike

Some of my thoughts on what community development means and my affection for New Haven here: https://bit.ly/3AawrCb

Economics (PhD UBC), yimby, replication, effective altruism. blog.michaelwiebe.com

They/them, MSP, zoning nerd

Building Housing for Families

editor @nextcity.org and analystnews.org covering the path to flourishing cities and a just world 🏙️🌎 urbanism without equity is gentrification. housing is a human right. genocide is bad. nonprofit journalism is the future. 🇨🇦🇺🇸 nextcity.org/pitch

Building code, multiplexes, missing middle and mid-rise housing <www.singlestair.ca>

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.

author of Paved Paradise, editor of The Future of Transportation, Loeb Fellow '24, formerly of Slate

Reporter at Reason Magazine covering urbanism, property rights, and occasionally heavy metal. Sign up for my housing newsletter! https://reason.com/newsletters/rent-free/

Architecture critic. Proprietor, Punch List Architecture Newsletter (punchlistmag.com). Faculty Architecture and English @Yale. Prev. Chief Design Officer, City of Los Angeles; architecture critic, Los Angeles Times

Dad, Husband, East Bay YIMBY, socdem🧦, founding board member of @eb4everyone, singer/pianist, 🇺🇸🇮🇹🇪🇺, I � Unicode, Gemini CLI Dev

Fairly opinionated. Liberal. YIMBY. (Former ED, opennewyork.city). he/him. 📍Long Island City, Queens

Social media host and reporter for @kpbssandiego.bsky.social @jakegotta on IG

Principal at Neighborhood Workshop & Faculty with the Incremental Development Alliance. Coined and popularized the term ACU - Accessory Commercial Unit. ACUs keep it local and make it walkable.

He/Him/His - Chief Advocacy Officer at Habitat for Humanity Seattle-King & Kittitas Counties - Housing abundance advocate - San Fransisco Giants fan

Urban planner, chronically & mysteriously ill, ✡️, plant lady, dog mom PDX

Fighting against car dependency, one unused parking spot at a time. Senior researcher at @Sightline.

I discovered the surprising story of what really happened in 2008 (not enough housing) and accidentally became a housing policy guy. https://kevinerdmann.substack.com/ https://www.amazon.com/stores/Kevin-Erdmann/author/B099P7SN1G

Interested in figuring out how to build better housing, transit and cities. Construction lawyer for CAHSR; advocate for East Bay for Everyone. Oakland.

Urbanist advocate. Policy Director at the Parking Reform Network. Writer at Strong Towns. Co-author "Escaping the Housing Trap." St. Paul, Minnesota.

I co-founded @cayimby.bsky.social to make California affordable and accessible for everyone. Support pro-housing candidates: http://cayimbyvictoryfund.org

It’s our city. Let’s build it up. 🌹🧦 🏗️🔰🚊 🔗 anthonyegill.bsky.social 🔗 linktr.ee/spokanerising

renewable energy tech by day. legalizing housing by night. sometimes vice versa. former planning commissioner in charlottesville

Pro-housing, pro-walking, pro-eating.

Transportation planner and economist. Founder, Siegman & Associates. Formerly Principal & Shareholder at Nelson\Nygaard. LinkedIn: https://tinyurl.com/5cekhrjh

Game dev, pro-housing activist. she/her

Publishes unwantedpersons.com on alternatives to police, care-focused first responders. Also Tracking the Jackboot on authoritarian policing. Poet & artist. Bookings @ kaiasand.net

Mad online about land use. D.C. policy boss @ggwash.org, Ward 1 Dems chair, Park View resident—in no order. Not paid to tweet, so DM me gossip. It’s only life; there is no real decay. I wouldn't front the scene if you paid me. Views mine.

Abundant housing. Justice. Dismantling oppression. Mpls politics. Observations from Zürich. She/her.

🤝 🏘️ Building & supporting infrastructure for a powerful, grassroots-led movement to win safe, affordable, equitable housing for all. 🔗 https://linkin.bio/aforhj

We all live in neighborhoods. Together, let's reclaim the word "neighborhood" to include the full diversity of voices.

Affordable housing finance, trains, DC, planes

Housing..but wait Johnny, there’s more.

Transportation Policy and Planning Researcher | ex-Lime

Chicago, zoning, transportation, maps volunteer for Drake: https://www.mobilize.us/drakefor10/ my blog: http://stevencanplan.com my business: http://chicagocityscape.com cofounder of @chi.streetsblog.org

Advocating for more people and fewer cars in Denver. Likes and reposts of candidates or elected officials are not endorsements. Become a member of YIMBY Denver at Yimbydenver.org

Computers, startups, bikes, Italy (lived in Padova for about 15 years), Central Oregon YIMBY

Housing is a human right. Fighting for tenants rights along with four floors and corner stores across Portland for all ages, wages and stages of life. 🏘️

Lawyer and dad in Seattle. Always full of bus ideas… …like the revenue-neutral central Seattle network in my pinned post. I like new apartments because I want my city to welcome everyone.

Portland should aim for a minimum 2% average annual growth rate. People already want to live in Portland, we just need to make it cheap and easy to build homes. 🏗️🏙️🌲🚲🦫

Work at SACOG to plan for a more compact and sustainable Sacramento region. City of Sacramento Planning Commissioner. Posts are my own.

Is this the one? Spend a little too much time thinking about housing // transit // climate // cool maps. And not enough time learning how to garden properly. Member of the Montgomery County Planning Board, but all posts and opinions here are my own

Lover of walking and biking, the Northwest, thoughtful policy, parking reform, climate action, and gueuze. Dad. Opinions are my own.