American Planning Association

Mike Johnson, Divya Gandhi, Em Hall, Meghan Stromberg

Booking Overview

This is an urban-planning interview podcast covering housing, transportation, resilience, climate adaptation, and community engagement, with external guests typically drawn from practicing planners, project leaders, and occasional keynote-level experts. PR agencies could credibly pitch urban planners, infrastructure and transportation leaders, resilience specialists, affordable-housing experts, and researchers with concrete community or municipal projects; booking difficulty is medium because strong subject-matter relevance and demonstrated implementation experience matter more than broad celebrity.

Metrics

Episodes: 293

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.5/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

YouTube: 740.0k subscribers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

mjohnson@planning.org

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Host

Mike Johnson - Podcast host covering urban planning and related professional issues for the American Planning Association.

Divya Gandhi - American Planning Association podcast co-host focused on transportation planning conversations.

Em Hall - American Planning Association podcast co-host focused on transportation planning conversations.

Meghan Stromberg - Editor in Chief at the American Planning Association.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Practicing urban planners, transportation or infrastructure professionals, resilience and hazard-mitigation specialists, researchers, project leaders, or recognized speakers with substantial field experience and a concrete community, municipal, or regional planning project.

Required Achievements:

Leadership of significant planning or infrastructure projects, Professional credentials such as AICP or an advanced degree, Demonstrated community engagement and implementation experience, Keynote, TEDx, authorship, or other established public-speaking experience for broader leadership topics

Recent Guest Discussions

Reuben Riggs-Bookman - Community Engagement, Transportation Planning, Infrastructure Development, Neighborhood Trust, And The Joe Louis Greenway.

Idrees Mutahr - Community Engagement, Transportation Planning, Infrastructure Development, Neighborhood Trust, And The Joe Louis Greenway.

Jaz Ampaw-Farr - Personal Resilience, Courageous Leadership, Authentic Public Speaking, Imposter Syndrome, And Leading Change.

Ryan Slattery - Community Resilience, Hazard Mitigation, Public Trust, Risk Communication, Stormwater, Transportation, Environmental Planning, And Artificial Intelligence In Planning.

Recent Topics

Urban Planning, Transportation, Resilience, Housing, Sustainability

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

American Planning Association

School-Oriented Development: Bridging the Divide Between Education and Transportation Planning

August 28, 2026

This episode of Critical Conversations in Transportation Planning is an installment of our safety series focusing one of the most overlooked levers in community safety: how kids get to school. Co-hosts Divya Gandhi and Em Hall sit down with Mathew Palmer, Senior Research Scholar and Project Director for SchoolCAMP at NC State University’s Institute for Transportation Research and Education (ITRE), whose career began not in a planning office but in a South Los Angeles high school classroom, wh...

Mapping Environmental Justice in NYC with Paul Lozito, AICP

July 27, 2026

In this episode of Critical Conversations in Transportation Planning, hosts Em Hall and Divya Gandhi sit down with Paul Lozito, AICP, Deputy Executive Director of the NYC Mayor's Office of Climate and Environmental Justice, to explore how environmental justice is reshaping urban planning in New York City. Lozito traces the roots of the EJNYC report and mapping tool back to decades of environmental justice organizing, and explains how the city is using data to identify "have" and "have-not" co...

The New 21st Century ROAD to Housing Law with Jason Jordan

July 11, 2026

In this special episode of the APA Podcast, recorded fresh off the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act officially becoming law, host Mike Johnson talks to Jason Jordan, APA's public affairs principal. Jason dives into some of the important provisions in the new legislation, outlines some of the funding opportunities, providing a general sense of what comes next and what this means for planners moving forward. Episode URL: https://planning.org/podcast/the-new-21st-century-road-to-housing-law-wit...

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