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Do you need to become an urban planning professional in order to make more livable cities? Do you need to study civil engineering in order to help design safer neighborhood streets? The answer is, yes sometimes, but not always. The story behind today’s guest, Austin Gibble, will help give you a good example of being both a professional and non-professional. Austin is both an urban professional by day and a non-professional advocate by night, pushing for stronger, more livable urban Indianapolis neighborhoods. Austin is a Project Development Planner at Indianapolis Public Transportation Corporation (IndyGo) and is also co-leader of Strong Indy, a local conversation of Strong Towns and Midwest chapter of Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU). He also grew up on a farm just outside of Indianapolis and he shares his story of how he went from farm boy to city dweller. Austin’s book recommendation: Place Matters - Metropolitics for the 21st Century Follow Austin on Twitter and on Instagram.   Join the Livable City community conversation. Support Livable City by becoming a member. Brought to you by SquadCast and post-production by Creekmore Music.