Images and articles relating to messy urbanism. Posts by @dylanreid
PDG de la Fondation du Grand Montréal
@fgmtl.bsky.social
Transportation & Transit Director for a growing Canadian city. Working to create complete communities with sustainable, multi-modal transportation solutions. Committed to building safe, accessible, and reliable ways to move, connect, and thrive.
Urban policy wonk, culture vulture, ever-optimistic Raptors fan. Director, Canadian Alliance for Transit-Connected Housing (CATCH).
Your friendly neighbourhood Vancouverite
Housing abundance enthusiast. Planning & Real Estate Consultant.
Vive le Canada. Elbows Up
An account for Reilly Wood's bad takes about cities. Computer stuff is at @reillywood.com
Data, analysis, visualization, #CensusMapper, transportation cyclist.
📍Vancouver, BC
Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus |
Environmental and Urban Change | York University
Cities | Football | Music
Professor Emeritus of geography & environmental studies, Saint Mary's University, Canada.
Interested in mapping, urban planning, transportation, time use, Nova Scotia
#geography #location #maps #transportation #urban
🚉 I’m a transit planner based in Toronto
🫡 Registered Planner (RPP, MCIP) & PRINCE2 certified (UK+Europe’s PMP)
🌎 I do this because it’s the space between places that determines the health of self and community. and peace blooms in cities 🏳️🌈
True North, Strong and FREE 🇨🇦
When you exploit systems they end.
Caraqueño en Toronto. Architect, researcher, plant caretaker.
Tall City Planner, Tkaronto (Toronto).
He/him. Formerly & fondly a resident of Hamilton, Ontario & London, UK.
Building code, multiplexes, missing middle and mid-rise housing <www.singlestair.ca>
City Councillor in Stittsville, one of the most exciting suburbs *in the world*
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(Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
Architectural historian. Passionate pedestrian & former cyclist, so road safety! City & provincial politics. Lifelong renter in Toronto.
city dweller, YIMBY with strong-towns tendencies. in my day job I solve optimal powerflows for distribution grids. extremely bike-pilled in Hamilton ON
Principal, masslbp.com | Helping people shape the policies that shape their lives | Citizens’ Assemblies + Democratic Innovation | Co-author, democracyssecondact.org
Bicycle Mayor Of Hamilton. Board of Directors - Hamilton Bike Share and @cyclehamilton.bsky.social Former @Everyone_rides_ Connector and Pedal Pal of @kidicalmassham.bsky.social. AKA Sharpieguy https://ko-fi.com/sharpieguy
https://linktr.ee/cycletherapyham
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.
Toronto-centric voice for architecture and urbanism. Transit nerd. Recovering American. Research, writing, bikes, architect-adjacent. (EN/FR, she/her/elle)
Toronto-based journalist, podcaster, and editor. Cities, Raptors, Leeds United, and two black cats named Hall & Oates.
I make an urban affairs podcast called Spacing Radio: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/spacing-radio/id1124077274
Passionate about...just about everything! Especially Waterloo Region. 🇨🇦
Author of CitifiedWR blog https://citified.substack.com/
Co-founder of Waterloo Region Yes In My Backyard
"Kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight"
https://linktr.ee/dtkmelissa
Geographer, public transit and active transportation advocate, Torontonian. He/him.
seanmarshall.ca
City man: Spacing magazine editor, walking, messy urbanism, Renaissance urban history. Also freelance editor. dylanreid.ca
Ottawa, cities, economics, skiing with dogs
Substacks I write: the 613, Fix Your City. Podcast: Better Ottawa
Ontario politics and policy for TVO. Writer and Podcast co-host, #onpoli
jm_mcgrath.01 on signal
Transportation and Board Chair, Centretown Community Association | Carleton Journalism Grad | Ottawa Urbanism Book Club | Board @strongtownsottawa.bsky.social| Substack: Improving Ottawa
Writer + Editor | Architecture + Cities | Toronto + Elsewhere
Strategy/Creative/Content/Branding @ rovélo creative. Lectures & workshops on reframing the mainstream narrative around road safety/road violence and AT but mostly trying to catch up on vacuuming.
Creativebyrovelo.com
Satirical news at The Rovélo Record
Passionate about great cities and user experience in public transportation. Advocate for democracy and stand against extremism. Opinionated in 🇫🇷🇬🇧🇮🇹🇩🇪🏳️🌈🐈
Working within the active transportation, environmental protection, affordable housing and placemaking sphere. Always advocating #BikeTO #TransformTO #BLM #TweetsAreMineByDefault
Author of"The Story of Upfront Carbon," reformed architect and developer, teacher of sustainable design at Toronto Metropolitan University. https://lloydalter.substack.com
Data + Graphics
Planning Research, City of Toronto
mapto.ca; tomweatherburn.com
I’m here to talk shop about bike lanes, street design, and urban mobility in Montreal and beyond.
Environmental neuroscientist with the Future Cities Institute exploring the complex interactions between who we are, where we live, and how we function as a society. Speaker. Writer. Mental health advocate. Human. linktr.ee/robinmazumder
Just me trying to be a good ancestor. Former six-term councillor for the City of Calgary. I will never stop championing equity, climate action, and inspiring city-making. Treaty 7, She/her 🇨🇦
Designer urbain, architecte et ingénieur.
Je pratique, j’enseigne, j’étudie et je milite pour la transformation des rues principales québécoises.
«Changeons le monde, un quartier, une rue et un logement à la fois.»
www.nomade.archi
www.jeanbeaudoin.com
Transportation data scientist at the University of Toronto, former physicist.
I post about bikes and safe streets, local politics, and sometimes science. She/her.
I tweet about happy cities and public transit. Managing Principal @HappyCities. Co-Founder @ Transport For Cairo. Halifax, NS <-> Vancouver, BC.
Better public spaces make us and the planet healthier and happier. We want to see Canadian cities invest in more of them. HQ Evergreen Brick Works in Toronto.
Join us for our next Evergreen Conference: May 6-7, 2026!
evergreen.ca
Co-Founder of halfclimatedesign.com
Ward 12 Councillor. City of Hamilton, Ontario. I consider all decisions from a systems perspective. Runner. Urbanist. Focused on Climate action. I cycle to City Hall, year-round.
www.craigcassar.ca
Planning Prof at the University of Waterloo studying housing, displacement, transportation & how they are related. Also cycling, curling, baseball & photography
I was born in Toronto, now live in Kitchener & have lived in Scotland & the Netherlands
he/him
Was @stateofthecity on Twitter. Veteran of a B-Grade, Film Noir genre of politics known as "local government." Current gig: second tour of duty in the Winnipeg Mayor's Office. Hometowns: Victoria, Winnipeg, Toronto. Working on 'Debt City' (see debt.city)
Architect and urban designer with Brown and Storey Architects
He/him. P.Eng. Public transit planner who loves cities, reading, cargo shorts, food, maps, naps, beer, and the Oxford comma.
A wee bit obsessive about biking 🚲
📍Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Service in English 🇨🇦
Service en Français 🇨🇦
Serviço em Português 🇧🇷
An Urban Planner taking the World on one bite at a time.
Director, SFU City Program + Assoc Prof of Professional Practice, Urban Studies
My thoughts are my own.
IG: publicyan | Twitter: ayan604
https://www.sfu.ca/continuing-studies/about/city-program
TODERIAN UrbanWORKS Inc. (TUW) is a Vancouver-based national and international city planning/design, mobility and "advanced urbanism" consultancy led by @BrentToderian.bsky.social.
Ontario reporter for The Narwhal. Vice-president of the Canadian Association of Journalists. Springsteen, space, sports, sweets
Writer, Learning Enthusiast, Urbanist, Optimist, Traveller, Canadian.
Passionate about making the world better.
https://cinqpersonnes.substack.com/
https://nextmetro.substack.com/
An aging Vancouver-based urban planner, developer, retired architect, writer and SFU Adjunct Professor with a longstanding interest in urban design and affordable housing.
🌱 CEO, Climate & Nature Solutions; Chair UN Net Zero.
🇨🇦Former Minister of Environment & Climate
🏃♀️Author, Run Like a Girl
Order your copy today ⬇️
www.catherinemckenna.ca
📩 contact@climateandnature.com
Associate Professor of Civil and Mineral Engineering, @uoft, Canada Research Chair Sustainable Infrastructure. Research: How should we literally build the future? Industrial Ecology. Cities. Transport. Construction.
Not all those who wander are lost. I explore Metroscapes, where natural and built environments collide.
🌐 https://metroscapes.ca
▶️ https://youtube.com/@metroscapes
Toronto's premier hub for #Architecture, #Development, #Transit & #RealEstate news.
Living towards a flourishing world, particularly through developing supportive and affordable housing. Interests in ending homelessness, restoring heritage buildings, Passive House, agriculture, and a springer spaniel. Supporting Ukraine & Canada.
City Planner, Urban Designer, mom, e-bike and beach lover. Co-Founder Birch Bark Studio. I try to make places better, one project at a time, and learn new things along the way.
Urban geography professor at McGill University • new cities built from scratch, cultural politics, graphic novels 🇨🇦
A hub for city research, education and engagement/outreach at U of T. Stay tuned for new #SofC initiatives at http://linktr.ee/uoftcities
Bluesky home of the City of Toronto's City Planning and Development Review Divisions. Follow us for news on upcoming events, community meetings and urban issues. Terms of Use: http://toronto.ca/socialmedia
Established in 1887 we are a non-profit organization bringing people together to discuss, learn and explore Toronto's built environment.
President, Canadian Climate Institute/ président de l'Institut climatique du Canada
@climateinstitute.bsky.social 🇨🇦
Sr Engineer on City of Toronto Cycling/Ped Team, Posts/Likes are my own.
Please email cycling@toronto.ca for official answers to infra/project questions.
I'm not 311 🙏🏽
https://linktr.ee/kayehm
Founded in 2015. A cross-country collective working on placemaking and public space advocacy.
placemaking-canada.ca
Urbanist, planner, educator (planning faculty at the University of Alberta). Making the jump from the old ways of social media.
🍁 General Manager Planning, Urban Design & Sustainability and Director of Planning at City of Vancouver 🍁
Architect | Number TEN Architectural Group
Columnist | Architecture+City Building - Winnipeg Free Press
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
Advocate for walkable live-work communities 🏢, public transit 🚊, active transit 🚲 & more housing.
M.A. in Public Policy Student.
strongtownslangley.org / langleyurbanistsociety.ca
📍 Langley, British Columbia, Canada
City of Toronto, Manager of Operations and Maintenance
Journalist
Obsessed with housing and the ongoing disappearance of the middle class.
Co-host for the Missing Middle podcast with Mike Moffatt
Former producer for The Agenda with Steve Paikin on TVO
Architect & Urban Designer - I work with communities to plan neighbourhoods and design transit stations. Mostly Toronto with some football i czasami po polsku
Toronto journalist & editor. Contributor to Globe & Mail, Toronto Star, Corporate Knights, Walrus, Spacing. Co-editor: Messy Cities (Coach House, 2025). Author: No Jews Live Here, A Memoir. https://chbooks.com/Books/N/No-Jews-Live-Here.
City columnist, contributing to the Toronto Star & writing the award-winning City Hall Watcher newsletter. A lot about Toronto Politics and then some nerd stuff. Humber College prof. (he/him)
Husband, father, planner, urban designer, consultant, sessional lecturer, volunteer, author, advocate, and Torontonian. Views are my own. www.scorgieplanning.com.
Partner @UrbStrat.bsky.social. Urbanist, Architect, Planner, Urban Designer, and part time farmer.
Founding member and past president of the Council For Canadian Urbanism.
Professor and Director, School of Urban and Regional Planning. University of Alberta. Also Director of the Sustainability Council at U of A. @rjscity on Twitter. Fun fact - I have the most popular comment in the history of the New York Times.
Toronto urban environmentalist. 20+ years in climate activism. From Etobicoke. ADHDer. Fancy degrees from McGill and Yale. Posts my own.
Energy and transit should be free. Cars should be an option, not a necessity.
https://how-sen.com/link
Author, Happy City.
Founder, Happy Cities.
I post on the connection between design + social trust.
Cities, algorithms, laws and invisible systems.
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Author of Straphanger, Shanghai Grand, Devil’s Picnic | Words NYT NatGeo Smithsonian WSJ | Talks: http://taras-grescoe.com/contact
https://www.highspeed.blog
https://linktr.ee/tarasgrescoe
IG: https://www.instagram.com/i.ride.trains/
Founder 8 80 Cities • Worked in over 350 cities • NEW keynotes & workshops on how CITIES can make HEALTHY & HAPPY LIVING the easy choice • Infra + Policy + Programs • Children • Olders • Top 100 urbanist (13).
Deviant pedestrian. I’m bullish on cities, opposed to fascism and write editorials for The Globe and Mail. Never 51. @moore_oliver at the bird site, which I've mostly left. Will try to respond via omoore@globeandmail.ca. Header pic by Mervyn Sequeira
We're a member-supported charity that's been leading the change for a healthier and more vibrant city since 2008.
Join the movement: www.cycleto.ca/join
André Picard is the health columnist at The Globe and Mail and the author of six bestselling books. I share stories and opinion pieces from a broad range of publications. Shares are not endorsements.
City planner & urban designer. Planning Director with a Metro Vancouver municipality. Mom of 2. Loves soccer, biking, design & cities. Posts are my own.
Architect Husband Dad he/him; past pres @oaarchitects.bsky.social; president @architectsdca.bsky.social; writer, public speaker, advocate for #procurement reform; #climatepoli @riseforarch
Spacing.ca / Toronto urbanism uncovered in award-winning mag/web/books/podcasts.
Spacing Radio podcasts: spacingradio.bsky.social
Spacing Vancouver: spacingvancouver.bsky.social
Spacing Store: spacingstore.bsky.social
Local tosser
Books author (New: Stroll!)
Toronto Star column writer
Spacing Magazine co-founder
U of T instructor
Trying to do it a bit different here than the last place.
Links to books, etc:
https://linktr.ee/shawnmicallef
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Lead columnist for Canada's National Observer.
Also: Mariners fan, crypto skeptic and descendant of Canada's worst prime minister (no, not him)
Architecture critic @theglobeandmail.com. Also author, University of Toronto Daniels Faculty instructor, husband, father of two city kids.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/authors/alex-bozikovic/
Award-Winning Placemaker (25+ North American Cities). Author. Speaker. Urban Planning Adjunct Professor. Subdivided Co-Editor. Two Book Deal w/ Penguin Random House Canada. Hip Hop & a lil Punk Rock. Hopeful.
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
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.
Canadian Urbanist and Chief Planner for the City of Toronto 🇨🇦
