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Cities for choice in housing, neighborhood, transpo; universal access, opportunity & upward mobility.
Prof of Sustainable Development @SMU; Board of Directors Dallas Area Rapid Transit; Founder: THE.City & the American Dream
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
An org with a mission to educate the public about the impact of parking policy on housing, climate, equity, and traffic.
https://linktr.ee/parkingreform
Data, analysis, visualization, #CensusMapper, transportation cyclist.
📍Vancouver, BC
Using data and historic photography to document the destruction of communities of color by redlining, urban renewal, freeways, and disinvestment; also highlighting solutions https://www.segregationbydesign.com/
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
Transport / Housing / Land Use / Politics / @urbaninstitute.bsky.social / Le progrès ne vaut que s’il est partagé par tous / yonahfreemark.com / thetransportpolitic.com
Examining how we make passenger rail better (electric/modern) for NYU-Marron. Prev: NY Mag, NY Post-Metro, NYDN. Hook’em🤘. 🏳️🌈. Tips? bynolanhicks@gmail.com; Signal/WhatsApp.
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.
I like trains and walkable neighborhoods.
https://linktr.ee/thetransitguy
Entrepreneur
Costplusdrugs.com
Reporter at ProPublica, author of FULFILLMENT and THE CYNIC, native of Pittsfield, resident of Baltimore.
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.
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.
Maximize opportunity and minimize injustice.
CRE, placemaking, transit, regionalism
Boards: WMATA, GGWash, ULI Washington
Book: https://www.brookings.edu/books/hyperlocal/
Bio: https://www.brookings.edu/people/tracy-hadden-loh/
Freelance Urban Geographer and Master of Social and Anti-Social Sciences. A trains-trans in exile (from Maryland to South Holland). Learning Dutch.
Economic data scientist and author. Currently @ No10, formerly ONS & Bank. Book on nuclear fusion, 'The Star Builders', out now with S&S/W&N. Views my own.
Website: www.aeturrell.com
policy, $, political economy of race // 70-80s soul, 90s hip hop // #DubNation // proud product of miscegenation // Berkeley prof (formerly: Princeton CSDP, UW)
Managing director at the @gmfus.bsky.social | Interested in geopolitics: Asian and European security, and women’s rights. Views my own.
Editor in Chief, @lawfaremedia.org
Senior Fellow, Brookings
Author, #DogShirtDaily
Host, #DogShirtTV
Purveyor of mischief.
Harasser of Russian diplomats worldwide.
Senior Fellow
Middle East Institute
Views my own.
https://linktr.ee/natansachs
Senior Fellow and Director, Retirement Security Project @Brookings. Previously: Research Associate @NBER, Senior Fellow @SIEPR, Biden-Harris Council of Economic Advisers. Passionate about connecting research to policy.
https://www.gopishahgoda.org
Higher education policy researcher | would rather be reading | https://kem3e.github.io/
Fellow | Economic Studies | @brookings.edu
Associate Director | @hamiltonproject.org
Board | @mazonusa.bsky.social
www.hamiltonproject.org
laurenhlb.01
General Counsel and Senior Editor at Lawfare. Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Columbia Law School. Former diplomat and lawyer.
VP & Director of Foreign Policy, The Brookings Institution
Senior Fellow in Economic Studies at Brookings. Previously, director of The Hamilton Project at Brookings and before that chief economist of CBO.
MIT professor, Brookings senior fellow, series editor at Cornell Press ⎮ Foreign policy, military operations, civil-military relations, nuclear weapons, authoritarianism ⎮ Views are my own ⎮ Book: The Dictator's Army
https://www.caitlintalmadge.com/
Fellow and Associate Director, Brookings Institution Center on Health Policy | mostly health econ, occasionally budgets or Knicks
Senior Fellow, Center on Health Policy, The Brookings Institution. Former Chief Economist for Council of Economic Advisers.
Associate Professor of Financial Regulation, Wharton; Nonresident Fellow, Brookings. Banking, central banking, financial history. Petercontibrown.substack.com
Author of "The Price of Democracy: The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History." Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution & Tax Policy Center.
Prof/ex-dean, American University School of International Service; senior advisor, Bridging the Gap; Research Affiliate, Stanford; Non-resident fellow, Kennan Institute. Views are my own. www.jamesgoldgeier.com.
Associate Professor of Economics at Johns Hopkins SAIS. NBER Research Associate.Senior Fellow at Brookings Institution
Fields: development, political economy, environment, economic history, inequality
https://sites.google.com/view/belinda-archibong/home
Political scientist by day (and night). GWU and Brookings. Co-editor, https://goodauthority.org/
sarahbinder.weebly.com
Director, Hutchins Center on Fiscal & Monetary Policy, Brookings Institution
https://www.brookings.edu/people/david-wessel/
Senior Fellow, @brookings.edu. Still not the Senate Parliamentarian.
Staff Writer @NewYorker. Fellow in the China Center @Brookingsinst. Latest book, "The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich" https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Haves-and-Have-Yachts/Evan-Osnos/9781668204481
Director CUSE, Germany explainer etc. @ Brookings; FT contributing columnist; Wizards Fan (I know). When the going gets tough, the tough go blonde. Pic: Marc Darchinger. Views my own, people.
Econ professor at Michigan ● Senior fellow, Brookings ● Intro econ textbook author ● Think Like An Economist podcast ● An economist willing to admit that the glass really is half full ● Find me: https://linktr.ee/justinwolfers
Writing about law and democracy at The Atlantic, previously Lawfare. Not a lawyer. It's KWIN-ta.
signal: qjurecic.32
Managing Partner, International Capital Strategies, Nonresident Senior Fellow @BrookingsInst, Fmr IMF Board, Past @WEF Chair Geopolitics/Geoeconomics, R/T ≠ endorsement. Views are my own.
Fellow, Brookings Institution. Advisor, Irregular Warfare Initiative. Views mine. Books! https://www.amazon.com/War-Arms-Length-Effective-Assistance/dp/0300278292, https://www.amazon.com/Compromised-Coalitions-Paradox-Postconflict-Sharing/dp/1512829609
Brookings Institution Center for Community Uplift | Researcher on climate and environmental justice | Geographer | Reformed economist
Visiting fellow at Brookings. Former journalist. Lots to talk about.
Vice President and Director of Brookings Metro. Formerly President & CEO of the Eno Center for Transportation.
Passionately Egalitarian. Professor, University of Maryland; Director, Critical Issues Poll; NR Senior Fellow, Brookings. Views are my Own. RT≠Endorsement
Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Poli sci PhD researching all things new media, emerging tech, and democracy.
Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institution
Economist working on education policy
👩🏽💻 Research & write about k-12 ed policy @ Brookings
💖 Stationery, books, coffee, & reality tv
🏆 Once voted best penmanship
Prof. McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown, senior fellow at The Brookings Institution, New York Times opinion writer. Passionate Celtics fan. Opinions here are my own.
AI Researcher, Policy Strategist, & Technorealist. Founder, Technēculturǎ.
Columnist, Science Magazine.
Cornell Computer Science PhD.
TIME100 AI. Forbes Under 30 AI.
Critically examining global equity in AI.
👩🏾💻: www.chinasatokolo.com
📩: bit.ly/contactCTO
Journalist, writer, unlicensed epistemologist. Brookings and The Atlantic. Please be sane, BlueSky.
Distinguished Visiting Fellow @Brookings Center for Technology & Innovation, former leader on privacy and technology in Obama administration Commerce Department.
Ketcham Chair in Middle East Studies, Prof. of Gov, Smith College; Nonresident Senior Fellow CMEP, Brookings. Former VP, Center for Applied Research on Conflict, USIP.
https://smith.academia.edu/StevenHeydemann
Professor of political science at Stanford. State formation, religion, political parties, Europe, etc. Amateur electrician.
Sr. Fellow @ Brookings, Executive Chair of Democracy Defenders Fund & Co-Founder of The Contrarian contrarian.substack.com Posts with "TN" are from Team Norm
Teacher, researcher, internationalist, republican.
tompepinsky.com
Professor of Political Science & Director of the Saltzman Institute of War & Peace Studies, Columbia. New Book: The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691215808/the-insiders-game
Professor of Practice, Johns Hopkins SAIS. Nonresident Fellow, Brookings. Former White House and Pentagon official. Asianist. (Views are my own.)
Assistant Professor at American University
Nonresident Senior Fellow at Brookings
Me: https://sharangrewal.com/
My book: https://www.amazon.com/Soldiers-Democracy-Military-Legacies-Spring/dp/0198873514/
Professor and Founding Director of 21JPSI @ Indiana University Hamilton Lugar School; Non-Resident Senior Fellow @ Brookings Institution; Japanese politics and foreign policy, East Asia security; Princeton Ph.D; Adampliff.com (photo: James Madison, 1822)
SVP, Policy & Innovation Center (http://thinkpic.org), helping government and community leaders act on smart ideas; Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Metro (www.brookings.edu/metro). Likes: Vibrant cities, women's basketball. Dislikes: fascism, spiders.
Journalism for civil society. Reporting on leadership, climate justice, racial justice, health justice, economic justice, philanthropy, and equity issues.
Economics editor at The Bulwark. MS NOW (formerly MSNBC) anchor.
Previously WaPo op-ed columnist and NYT reporter.
Econ, politics, immigration, tax, etc. + occasional theater nerdery.
Economist. Executive Vice President of Criminal Justice at Arnold Ventures. Host of the Probable Causation podcast. Author of The Science of Second Chances, on sale now! I study crime & discrimination. https://jenniferdoleac.com
Urban Planner, Partner in Speck Dempsey, author of Walkable City, Walkable City Rules, and other stuff I'd like you to read.
Associate Professor of Finance, NYU Stern
Newsletter: arpitrage.substack.com
Website: arpitgupta.info
Automatically tweets new posts from http://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
Please respond in the comment section of the blog.
Old posts spool at https://twitter.com/StatRetro
Just an old battleship sailor.
Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Austrian 🇦🇹
Economist 📈
Not an Austrian Economist
Allen & Kelli Questrom Professor
BU Questrom, NBER, ECGI & NBER
https://florianederer.github.io/
We're changing *everything* about the North American pattern of development. Become a member today! strongtowns.org/membership
Pioneering economics journal dedicated to the development of theory and methods in spatial economics and spatial data analysis. Part of Regional Studies Association (@regstud.bsky.social).
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rsea20
Yale SOM professor & Bulls fan. I study consumer finance, and econometrics is a big part of my research identity. He/him/his
Two guys with a couple radios. Always listening to Pittsburgh Police/Fire/EMS. https://linktr.ee/pghscanner
We equip decisionmakers with nonpartisan research and policy strategies to create a more prosperous and secure country and world.
📩 Sign up for the Brookings Brief: http://brook.gs/3JuZxRE
Writing a data-driven newsletter about economics @ apricitas.io
Nuance? In this Economy
Full Employment Stan, Brazilian Coffee Tariff Victim |
Bay Area native, proud PGH transplant. Pittsburgh reporter for Axios. Past: TribLive and Pittsburgh City Paper. Tips: ryan.deto@axios.com
Here for a good time, not a long time, but the good time is building an Allegheny County for all.
Call me ACE.
Allegheny County Weights & Measures Fan Account
Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com
📝 ft.com/jbm
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