Pedestrian activists

John Papworth (12 December 1921 – 4 July 2020) was an English clergyman, writer and activist against big public and private organizations and for small communities and enterprises.

Henry A. Barnes (December 16, 1906 – September 1968) was an American traffic engineer and commissioner who served in many cities, including Flint, Michigan; Denver, Colorado; Baltimore, Maryland; and New York City. Barnes was responsible for many innovations in applied traffic engineering, including the Green Wave of coordinated traffic signals, the application of actuated traffic signals (signals set off by the presence of an automobile or a pedestrian pushing a button), and the introduction of bus lanes.

Aaron Naparstek (born 1970, in Boston, Massachusetts), is the founder of Streetsblog, a web site providing daily coverage of transportation, land use and environmental issues in New York City. Since its founding in June 2006, Streetsblog has emerged as an influential forum for New York City's Livable Streets Movement, dedicated to reclaiming cities' public spaces from the automobile and improving conditions for pedestrians, cyclists and transit users. Streetsblog is published by the OpenPlans.

Charles Marohn is an American author, land-use planner, municipal engineer, and the founder and president of Strong Towns, an organization which advocates for the development of dense towns and the restructuring of suburbia.

Katherine Hobbs is the Ottawa city councillor of Kitchissippi Ward. She won the ward in the Ottawa municipal election, 2010, defeating the incumbent Christine Leadman.

Nicholas John Boys Smith MBE is an English author, researcher and campaigner, best known as the founding Director of Create Streets, an independent research institute that campaigns for gentle density in urban planning, subscribing to ideas of the New Urbanism and New Classical Architecture movements.