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Lecturer in Digital History at UCL. All things census related + agrarian/industrial development of Britain 16th-19th centuries.
Research Economist, Banxico (Posts are my own). PhD Brown University. Undergrad URosario. Urban, Labor, Public Economics.
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Trnsprtst. Rogue Planner. Refreshingly Unromantic. So F*ing Lucid. fRSN. 2%. Research: #Access, #Transport #Economics, #NetworkEvolution, #Traffic. Founding […]
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Prof Geographic Information Science at the University of Liverpool; Author of Urban Analytics (https://amzn.to/2l5txth) https://mapstodon.space/@alexsingleton
Helping cities make big ideas happen. A program of
@worldresources.bsky.social. Producer of http://TheCityFix.org. Home of #PrizeForCities.
Maire de Paris, ville hôte des Jeux Olympiques et Paralympiques 2024
Researcher. Cities, urban morphology, human geography & spatial data science. Open source software developer. #python #cities #open_science
https://martinfleischmann.net
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
Transportation, a special kind of land-use 🚌
PhD(c) in Transport Geography at McMaster University.
Connecting: inequalities, climate change, transport, spatial analysis
Professor of Economic Geography, UCL. Also CEP, IZA. Cities, economics, innovation, diversity, and public policy. Views here are mine, not those of UCL, funders, data providers, etc.
https://max-nathan.github.io
Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis | @thebartlettucl.bsky.social | Website: ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/casa
Research Fellow in Urban Analytics at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at UCL || PhD Researcher at the CDT in Geospatial Systems at Newcastle University #UrbanDataScience #SpatialJustice
I investigate why the world is in crisis: www.planetcritical.com
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Transport researcher with views on + than 1 topic - EU / Italian citizen with views on + than 1 country. Used to be in the UK. Now in Germany at TU Dortmund. Views my own https://t.co/ltfHVOHZe4
Lecturer in Quantitative Human Geography @ Newcastle University & Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS) | 📍Based in 🇬🇧| PhD @ University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 🇺🇸| 🇰🇷
Spatial Data Scientist for the City of Amsterdam ||
All things urban 🌆, policy 📝, AI 🦾 and spatial data science 📍
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Prof. of Economic Geography and Fellow of Pembroke College, University of Cambridge. My work is on labour markets, migration, planning, and regional policy. I also love photography and baking, and have a crazy cocker spaniel called Fonzie.
Climate adaptation & development•Prof Development Geography @giubresearch.bsky.social•Co-EiC @climdevjournal.bsky.social•PI @dependencybonn.de•Associate @sei.org & @ecioxford.bsky.social• @welthungerhilfe.bsky.social•she/her/Du•Servant to 3 rescue 🐈⬛ •🇸🇪
Professor of Urban Analytics @ CASA UCL -
@casauc.bsky.social. Lover of drum & bass, beer and tattoos. Drummer. Dad. Run a bit. Live in Brighton.
Bristol & Melbourne. Sociology. Geography. Urban Studies. Digital Culture.
Prof at University of Bristol, School of Policy Studies & Hon Prof Fellow, Centre for Cities, University of Melbourne & Adjunct Prof, Social Sciences, University of Adelaide.
Lecturer in Sustainability and Urban Data Science, ESALA | EFI, at University of Edinburgh
Co-organiser EdinbR | QMRG-RGS treasurer.
Views mine.
Prof. Human #Mobility & #Migration • Geographic #DataScience • #Spatial #Inequality
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🔗 www.franciscorowe.com
Time geography and geospatial analytics for sustainable mobility and livable cities.
Professor and Director, Center for Urban and Regional Analysis (CURA), The Ohio State University. All opinions mine not theirs.
https://u.osu.edu/miller.81/
Assistant Professor of GeoIT @AaltoUniversity. Interested in advancing GIScience for sustainable development at https://gistlab.science #Open #Python #GIS author & educator: http://htenkanen.org/teaching
Editor at Environment & Planning, B and expat at the University of Bristol. Code with pysal and geopandas. Stats, Cities, and People. Catch up with me at http://ljwolf.org
Author of Doughnut Economics, Co-founder of Doughnut Economics Action Lab, Senior Teaching Fellow at Oxford Uni Environmental Change Institute. doughnuteconomics.org
Prof, Maynooth Univ https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/rob-kitchin
PI Data Stories https://datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie/
Author: Researching Digital Life, Digital Timescapes, Data Lives, The Data Revolution
PDFs papers/chs https: www.kitchin.org
Population Geographer | Spatial Demographer.
Partial to words like orthogonal + heterodox.
Also very partial to shoes.
rachelfranklin.org + rachelfranklin.substack.com
director of creative research @ the metro ny library council; resigned full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
wordsinspace.net
Professor at Loughborough
Occasionally with NatGeo
cities, inequalities, and justice
https://trivikverma.com/
Staff Engineer, open source fan, hacking on geospatial in my spare time. Lives in London
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
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Associate Professor in Urban Analytics and Informatics, Chalmers
Dr. Sonia Yeh, Professor of Transport and Energy Systems at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, specializes in energy economics, sustainable transportation, and system modeling.
Visiting postdoc in mobility data science at Technical University of Denmark | postdoc at Chalmers University of Technology. #UrbanBigData & #Transportation | yuan-liao.com
Associate Professor @USC • Nonresident Senior Fellow @Brookings • Urban Networks • Geospatial Data Science
Web: https://geoffboeing.com
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/gboeing
Senior Data Scientist at Financial Times.
Python/R, ML, NLP, but also the occasional local politics.
Dad of two girls.
Opinions are my own.
Associate Professor of Geography & Planning at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. Director, Institute for Inclusive Economies & Sustainable Livelihoods. (he/him)
The Urban Economics Association seeks to promote participation and excellence in academic research in urban and regional economics.
We provide grant funding for innovative research projects that advance the frontiers of urban knowledge. Follow for news & updates. Read more on our website: https://urbanstudiesfoundation.org
Supporting and connecting researchers and policy-makers engaged in regional analysis and research. We're mostly on BlueSky now.
www.regionalstudies.org/
Geographer studying mobilities, transport, & land use in the context of safety, social justice, health, & climate. University of Edinburgh PhD candidate funded by NERC. he/him
Professor in #geography & #geoinformatics at @helsinkiuni.bsky.social 🇫🇮
#ERC grantee
Mobile big data & spatial analytics for #sustainability in urban areas and green spaces 💚
Leads @digigeolab.bsky.social
❤️ #openscience #GIScience 🐾🧒👶🏃♀️🚲🏕️🍵🎬
Professor of Transport Governance University of Leeds - posting in a personal capacity
Institute for Transport Studies and University of Leeds #Professor of #Transport and #Energy who wants to help rid the world of unnecessary use of energy in all its guises.
https://environment.leeds.ac.uk/transport/staff/915/professor-jillian-anable
Bluesky feed for the Geographic Data Science Lab at the University of Liverpool.
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/geographic-data-science/
Assistant Professor - Department of Geography and Planning, UofT
Associate Director - Mobilizing Justice Partnership
Interests: Sustainable and equitable transport, spatial and mixed methods
Website: https://tiznadoaitken.cl
Senior Researcher in Geospatial Data Science and Urban Mobility @ Transport Studies Unit, University of Oxford
Professor of Economics at CEMFI doing research on urban economics
Mapping+Excellence+Community
The BCS promotes the art & science of mapmaking and all aspects of cartography to a wide audience.
• GeoFutures 25th March 2026 London
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Edited by Peter Hopkins, Paul Milbourne, Rebecca Collins & Trivik Verma
Geo is a fully open access international journal publishing original articles from across the spectrum of geography and environment research.
Edited by @laurieparsons.bsky.social, @chrisdarvill.bsky.social, Le Yu & Karen Bickerstaff.
Adorable little academic journal. We publish on geographical methods, spatial and urban analytics + innovative applications. Editor: @rsfrankl.bsky.social
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• passionate about #maps, #geodata & #ddj
• (urban) data analytics @ubilabs
• data journalism @spiegel.de
• Hamburg, Germany
Human-centric #geospatial #DataScience 🚶🚲 Sustainable #mobility #networks, in #Copenhagen
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Postdoc, Geographer & GIScientist
Research on #Cities, #Sustainability, #Accessibility, #Transport, #ActiveTravel, #UrbanEnvironments, #Nature, #BigData, #SpatialAnalysis
👥 Digital Geography Lab @digigeolab.bsky.social
🏫 University of Helsinki
PhD candidate @HarvardEcon. I study cities and their regulations. Proud dog mom to Dexter.
Grupo de pesquisa. Planejamento Urbano e Regional, Arquitetura e Urbanismo e Demografia. Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade Federal do Pará
labcam@ufpa.br
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+5522974057006
Researcher Ipea Brazil | Visiting prof @geo_uoft | PhD @TSUOxford | Structured procrastination on Cities, Urban mobility, Accessibility, Equity, Data science, R. About: www.urbandemographics.org/
Climate change, social inequalities, housing crises, commodification of life highlight the urgency of a profound rethinking of the organisation of the city.
+2000 signatories 160 academics 350 architects
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Geographer. Professor in Urban and Environmental Studies at El Colegio de México working on peripheral capitalism and the financialization of water.
Sociologist. On cities, housing and struggles for social justice. From Spain, based in Sweden (Uppsala Univ.). Author of "Squatters in the Capitalist City" (Routledge) and editor of "Research Handbook on Urban Sociology" (EE). www.miguelangelmartinez.net
Action-oriented advocacy network committed to social change by promoting the #RightToTheCity as a core value for policies & actions worldwide🌐
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We study cities and everything urban.
Established in 2006 at #YorkUniversity in Toronto, our mission is to facilitate and mobilize interdisciplinary, critical and collaborative urban research.
Prof of Politics with a focus on migration, cities & social justice.
Studying housing from Central NJ
Professor of Urban Geography, Durham University
http://cityfragment.wordpress.com
DenCity: http://dencity.webspace.durham.ac.uk
Durham: https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/colin-mcfarlane/
Urbanista e professora da Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da USP e coordenadora do LabCidade FAUUSP. 📷: Arte de Ottavia Pasta
http://linktr.ee/RaquelRolnik
postdoctoral researcher in City and Regional Planning at Penn
housing / neighborhood change / residential mobility
Postdoc at the University of California, Davis. Studying policy & politics around transportation, land use, and travel behavior. She/her. amyelee.com 🏳️🌈
Director Boston University Initiative on Cities. Urbanist, Geographer, Public Scholar, Mum. Lives Boston USA and London UK.
Professor of Urban Studies, King's College London; Editor Urban Studies. Part-time psychogeographer, landscape punk and walker.
Prof of Urban Studies and International Development @Sheffield uni. Cities, politics & political economy, migration & mobility, land, infrastructure, conflict. Part time Senior Research Fellow in Research & Evidence Directorate @FCDO. All views my own.
Professor of Social & Cultural Geography, not representing my Uni. Here to lament / rant on mega-events, geopolitics, sustainability, UKR-RUS-USA, the end of things and how it could be better.
Latest book, open access: https://tinyurl.com/SDWHESP.
Professor of Planning & Dean | School of Architecture, Planning & Environmental Policy. University College Dublin | environmental planning, rural and land-use planning, heritage. Board Member, Regional Studies Association
Urban Planning and Studies Researcher, Human Driven Method Smart City Development, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
Assistant Professor of Urban Technology at University of Michigan | Studying #race #equity #data #tech #housing | PhD at MIT | he/him.
Researching coastal and ocean space at MIT Urban Studies and Planning + WHOI Marine Policy Center. Atlantan. Jew. Frequent forgetter. She/her. www.ariaritzfinkelstein.com. How are people liking it here?
Critical urban planning professor @ Tufts UEP. From Yorkshire UK, now living in Cambridge MA. Dad of English choccy Lab, Oso. Desperately seeking #justsustainabilities. Editor-in-Chief of Local Environment. Website: julianagyeman.com
Associate Professor of Spatial Planning and Strategy @TUDelft, author, editor (and painter when time permits). #SpatialJustice #PublicGoods. #Publicness. Visit the Centre for the Just City https://just-city.org
Professing U.S. housing policy and suburbs. Senior Associate Editor, Journal of Urban Affairs. Author of "Housing in the United States: The Basics" (Routledge, 2024). Arlington, VA.
Prof of urban policy and planning, CUNY Hunter College (not implicated in my posts). Currently thinking about how govt policy can discourage the private extraction of land rent. Proud supply skeptic.
Assistant Professor of planning at Utrecht University. Urban policy, cities, housing, politics, Brazil, Canada.
I'm an urban planning educator at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. My questions/quests: Can zoning make communities equitable instead of protecting privilege? What narratives & political campaigns can lead to zoning for equity?
Housing Policy | Race Relations | Community Development | Reparative Justice
Associate Professor - Sociology
University of Toronto
www.drdantzler.com
Founding Director - Housing Justice Lab
School of Cities
www.housingjusticelab.org
urban planner, educator, transport nerd, data geek, dad
associate professor//community & regional planning. mobility justice, transportation equity, civil rights, environmental justice, accessibility, GIScience, etc. views my own.
longer-form writing: https://alexkarner.substack.com
Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Planning, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. Recovering engineer. Faculty Union Coordinator: appu.org #BlueskyPR #development #housing #infrastructure #climatechange #PuertoRico #Caribbean