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Lloyd Alter's avatar

What a wonderful list! Thank you for this (and for including me!)

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Andy DelGiudice's avatar

Thanks for this. A lot of my favorites are on it and I look forward to checking out

some new ones too. Build to Thrive is a great Stack, too 👍🏼👍🏼

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Neighborhood Mom's avatar

Hey there!! I’m new to Substack but have been around the urbanism world for a while. I’m writing a Substack about parenting in cities (with a focus on the Rust Belt) called Neighborhood Mom

https://substack.com/@neighborhoodmom?r=5kajt&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile

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Chuck Wolfe's avatar

I was an urbanist, three books about cities, now place-ethereal—but relevant—I promise. https://resurgencejourney.substack.com/

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Ryan Puzycki's avatar

Nice to encounter you here! I'll add you on the update.

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Matt Choi's avatar

Thanks for including me (and for vastly expanding my own reading list!).

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H. Pike Oliver's avatar

Thanks for the mention!

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Daniel Heller's avatar

Thanks for mentioning us :)

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Jeff Fong's avatar

@ other folks I don't already know

We have a private list going of urbanist writers who'll be at Strong Towns, CNU, YimbyTown, Abundance Con, Progress Con, whatever. Intention is to help folks connect IRL.

DM me if you want to be included

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Laura Fenton's avatar

SO many great newsletters to check out--thanks for the great list!

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ProFound Insights's avatar

Bummed that I didn't make it to the list yet:

ProFound City Insights: https://profoundinsights.substack.com/

Might be worth looking into. I focus on how urban form changes driver behavior. Turns out, it is, and always has been, about the people, which means there are wide ranging implications in every type of urbanity.

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Ryan Puzycki's avatar

Happy to encounter you now! And I've updated the list with your info. The plan is to keep this "live" going forward.

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Ryan M Allen's avatar

Honored to be on the list with so many great writers! Thank you. 🙏

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Stephanie Nakhleh's avatar

Thank you for compiling this list, Ryan and Diana! I added it to my "about" section. I know my project just started, but I'd love to be added to the list eventually. I'm a journalist and planning commissioner in a small town, and those are often overlooked in this world - my Substack is urbanism with a "how it works in a specific place" niche - https://stephnakhleh.substack.com/

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Ryan Puzycki's avatar

Thanks, Stephanie! I'll check out your work and add you once I do the next update.

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The Emergent City's avatar

Thanks for the shoutout mate! Love your work

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Aaron Shavel's avatar

Happy to be part of this growing community. A lot of these folks inspired me to get writing. On my Substack I write about transit, urban infrastructure and construction. Would love to be included on future roundups.

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Ryan Puzycki's avatar

Sure thing! I'll add you.

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H. Pike Oliver's avatar

A substack you might want to include is one by Brad Weed called Interplace https://interplace.io/

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Ryan Puzycki's avatar

Noted, thanks!

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Jordan Orlando's avatar

No Michael Sorkin? I’m astonished.

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Ryan Puzycki's avatar

This was a Substack-only list.

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Jordan Orlando's avatar

Oh, I’m sorry.

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Ryan Puzycki's avatar

No worries! There are a lot people writing, so I'm sure we didn't even get everyone on Substack. If we left any Substackers off, it's a sin of omission, not a slight!

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Chuck Wolfe's avatar

He’s passed away, Covid, pre-Substack

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Jordan Orlando's avatar

I know — but his body of work is so crucial to the field. Again, excuse me — I misunderstood the criteria of the list.

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Chuck Wolfe's avatar

No worries, I suspected that’s what was going on. There’s plenty of people that are left off from these self-selected lists. As a veteran of the Planetizen contemporary urbanist list, it’s always fun to be selected or ignored.

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Ryan Puzycki's avatar

To be clear, this was not a curated list. We included everyone we could think of, so if we missed you, it wasn't intentional. This will be updated going forward.

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