American Planning Association

Mike Johnson, Divya Gandhi, Em Hall, Meghan Stromberg

mjohnson@planning.org

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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: 291

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.5/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

YouTube: 740.0k subscribers

Contact Information

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

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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...

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,...

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