Bonnie J. Johnson, FAICP
- Professor
- School of Public Affairs & Administration
Contact Info
Lawrence
Personal Links
Biography —
Research —
Research interests:
- Civic bureaucracy
- Planning practice
- Media and planning
- Public service
- Codes of ethics, Professionalism
Teaching —
Teaching interests:
- City planning and politics
- Sustainability
- Land Use
- Site Planning
- History of planning
- Theory of planning
- Planning processes
Selected Publications —
Johnson, B. & Kisler, S. (2023, June). Creating Staff Reports With Pizzaz. Zoning Practice.
Johnson, B. J. (2017, March). The Better Staff Report. Planning, 83(3).
Halegoua, G., & Johnson, B. J. (2020). Seeing Like a Neighbor: Rethinking Neighborhoods as Service-oriented Communities. Urban Affairs Review. 57(6):1730-1758. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1078087420924759 (Refereed)
Alobaydi, D., Ph.D., Johnson, B. J., & Templin, J. (2019). Iraq’s tough governance setting: Examining the importance of self-sacrifice over institutions to public service motivation. International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies, 13(2-3), 181-203. https://doi.org/10.1386/jciaw_00007_1 (Refereed)
Johnson, B. (2019). Are you thinking what I’m thinking? Using the Sociology of Professions to Compare the Public Values in Public Administration and Urban Planning Literatures. In The Palgrave Handbook of the Public Servant. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03008-7_47-1
Johnson, B. (2018). Planners as Leaders: Finding Their Comfort Zone. International Journal of Public Leadership, 14(3), 155-178. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJPL-04-2018-0022 (Refereed)
Johnson, B. J., Peck, M. K., FAICP, & Preston, S., FAICP. (2017). City Managers have Ethics too? Comparing Planning and City Management Codes of Ethics. Journal of the American Planning Association, 83(2), 183-201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01944363.2017.1289114 (Refereed)
Johnson, B. J., & Gore, N. (2016). What do the Professions "Profess"? Comparing Architecture and Planning Codes of Ethics. Architectural Science Review, 59(6). doi:10.1080/00038628.2016.1194255 (Refereed)
Johnson, B. J., & Lyles, W. (2016). The Unexamined Staff Report: Results From an Evaluation of a National Sample. Journal of the American Planning Association, 82(1), 22-36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01944363.2015.1109471 (Refereed)
Selected Presentations —
Johnson, B.J. (2022). Finding the Art in the Art and Science of Staff Reports. Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Toronto, Canada. (International)
Strassle, A. & Johnson, B.J. (2021). Planning as a Queer Inclusive Project: An Examination of LGBTQ+ Community Centers in the Planning Process and Impacts on Public Health. Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Virtual. (International)
Johnson, B.J. (2020). The Avant-garde Staff Report: Innovation in the Every Day. Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Virtual. (International)
Johnson, B. J., Peck, M. K., FAICP, & Preston, S., FAICP. (2019). Who Does it Better? Looking for Innovations in Public Service Professions’ Codes of Ethics. Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Greenville, SC. (International)
Johnson, B. (2019). Planning for Real. UK Planning Research Conference, Liverpool, England. (International)
Johnson, B. J., & Halegoua, G. (2018). The Meaning of ‘Neighbor’ in the Neighborhood: Rethinking Neighborhoods as Service-oriented Communities. Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Buffalo, NY. (International)
Johnson, B. (2018, April 11). Is your Public Values Universe, My Public Values Universe? Comparing the Public Values in Public Administration and Urban Planning Literatures. International Research Society for Public Management, Edinburgh, Scotland. https://www.business-school.ed.ac.uk/irspm/programme/. (International)
Johnson, B. (2017, October 14). Should Planners Lead? Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Denver, CO. (International)
Awards & Honors —
Urban Planning Students, School of Public Affair & Administration, & KU Endowment create the “Bonnie Johnson Professional Development Fund” for urban planning students (2023)
Faculty Teacher of the Year Award, School of Public Affairs and Administration, University of Kansas, selected by students (2022)
Byrd Graduate Educator Award Nomination, University of Kansas, proposed by students (2022)
FAICP Star Planner Spotlight (Fall 2022), American Planning Association Small Town & Rural Planning Division Newsletter.
Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners (FAICP) Inducted 2020
Senior Administrative Fellows program, University of Kansas (2018 – 2019)
Integrated Arts Research Fellowship, Spencer Museum of Art (May 2018 - July 2018).