mjohnson@planning.org
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Metrics
Episodes: 290
Frequency: Irregular
Rating: 4.5/5.0
Estimated listeners: 1k-10k
Gender skew: Male
Location: USA
YouTube: 740.0k subscribers
Contact Information
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Host
Meghan Stromberg - APA Editor in Chief. In the episode description, she talks with a resilience and hazard mitigation planner about keeping difficult conversations moving in communities facing increasing hazards.
Divya Gandhi - Co-host in the episode “From Data Centers to City Streets: Rethinking Infrastructure in a Digital Age,” continuing a transportation planning series with a guest professor.
Em Hall - Co-host in the episode “From Data Centers to City Streets: Rethinking Infrastructure in a Digital Age,” continuing a transportation planning series with a guest professor.
Joe DeAngelis - Research manager at the American Planning Association (APA). In the episode description, he chats with an author and professor about AI’s evolution in planning.
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Recent Guest Discussions
Ryan Slattery, AICP - Resilience And Hazard Mitigation; Community Trust And Difficult Conversations; Engagement And Listening; Criticism; Resilience Planning Within An Engineering Firm; Where AI May Help Planners Vs. Where Human Judgment Matters; Tensions Around Data Centers And Water.
Manny Patole - Community Data Science; Environmental Justice; Ai’s Hidden Physical Footprint; Transportation Planning And The Role Of Data Centers As Infrastructure.
Tom Sanchez, AICP - Rapid Evolution Of Ai; Uncertainty And Planning; Learning From Past Trends; Staying Cautious And Open-minded; Adaptation And Innovation; Collaboration.
Recent Topics
Episodes
Ten Percent Braver: Championing Personal Resilience with Jaz Ampaw-Farr
July 01, 2026
Recorded live at the 2026 National Planning Conference in Detroit, this special APA Podcast episode features an intimate and uplifting conversation between host Mike Johnson and NPC26 keynote speaker Jaz Ampaw-Farr— an internationally acclaimed British motivational speaker, leadership consultant, and self described "resilience ninja". Jaz earned mainstream recognition in the UK as a candidate on Series 9 of the BBC reality show The Apprentice and later via her popular TEDx talk, The Power of ...
From Disinvestment to Renewal: Lessons from Detroit's Joe Louis Greenway
July 01, 2026
The Joe Louis Greenway is a 29-mile trail network connecting 23 neighborhoods and four cities across metropolitan Detroit, and it runs on land with a complex legacy of disinvestment, industrial use, and community displacement. Building the Greenway requires more than funding and construction. It requires trust. Recorded at the 2026 National Planning Conference in Detroit, this episode of Critical Conversations in Transportation Planning features Idrees Mutahr and Reuben Riggs-Bookman, PhD,...
Ryan Slattery, AICP, on Resilience, Community Trust, and Tough Conversations
June 19, 2026
How do you protect communities from intensifying floods, heat, storms, and other hazards when the words around those risks can shut the conversation down? In this episode of People Behind the Plans , recorded live at NPC26, APA Editor in Chief Meghan Stromberg talks with Ryan Slattery, AICP , a resilience and hazard mitigation planner in Houston, about what it takes to keep difficult conversations moving when trust is fragile, language is loaded, and the stakes are real. Drawing on more tha...
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