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What Makes a Place Go?
Something separates the streets that hum from the streets that don't. I've spent my years trying to name it.
Mar 16
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Jeffery Tompkins
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What is Four-Dimensional Planning? Pt. 2
This is part two of an ongoing series on my theory of four-dimensional thinking around cities - you can read part 1 here.
Sep 30, 2025
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Jeffery Tompkins
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Why Your City Should Build a Retail Strategy
(And How They Can Do It) - aka thinking outside the Big Box
Oct 30, 2025
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Jeffery Tompkins
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Land Value Tax Would Solve This (But Probably Not in Indy)
Dec 3, 2025
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Jeffery Tompkins
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You don’t hate paying taxes!
Dec 8, 2025
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Jeffery Tompkins
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Welcome to Speed City
Mar 9
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Jeffery Tompkins
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From Strip to Hip
Dec 14, 2025
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Jeffery Tompkins
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Pt. 1: What is Four-Dimensional Planning?
Sep 23, 2025
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Jeffery Tompkins
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I Want My MTV (Mall to Village): A 6-Step Guide to Retrofitting Suburbia
Dec 15, 2025
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Jeffery Tompkins
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Incremental Growth
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Rigid Zoning is a Bottleneck on Indiana's Competitiveness.
Indiana has spent decades perfecting a 20th-century economic playbook: keep taxes low, regulations light and the cost of doing business…
Feb 9
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Jeffery Tompkins
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Double Up the Lot: Turning Backyards into Bank Accounts
We should start saying "yes in my backyard" quite literally. The result could be generational wealth-creation for long-term residents.
Jan 6
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Jeffery Tompkins
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I Want My MTV (Mall to Village): A 6-Step Guide to Retrofitting Suburbia
Stop, collaborate, and listen. It’s time to turn dead retail boxes into living neighborhoods. Just not all of them.
Dec 15, 2025
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Jeffery Tompkins
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From Strip to Hip
Cities should create a Shopping Center Potential Index to understand where limited municipal resources should be spent
Dec 14, 2025
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Jeffery Tompkins
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Will AI Replace Concept Work Done by Architects?
Hint: it already has
Dec 1, 2025
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Jeffery Tompkins
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Indianapolis
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Welcome to Speed City
Indianapolis's new branding strategy can be a winning one. But we have to imbue it as part of our culture.
Mar 9
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Jeffery Tompkins
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Rigid Zoning is a Bottleneck on Indiana's Competitiveness.
Indiana has spent decades perfecting a 20th-century economic playbook: keep taxes low, regulations light and the cost of doing business…
Feb 9
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Jeffery Tompkins
4
Double Up the Lot: Turning Backyards into Bank Accounts
We should start saying "yes in my backyard" quite literally. The result could be generational wealth-creation for long-term residents.
Jan 6
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Jeffery Tompkins
7
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You don’t hate paying taxes!
What you hate is paying taxes and getting nothing in return.
Dec 8, 2025
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Jeffery Tompkins
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Land Value Tax Would Solve This (But Probably Not in Indy)
Cities have other tools to encourage vacant properties to develop
Dec 3, 2025
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Jeffery Tompkins
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How to Make Places Go
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Why the Five-Over-One Feels Dead
The most common new buildings in America score well on every planning metric we have. Except the ones we feel.
6 hrs ago
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Jeffery Tompkins
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What Makes a Place Go?
Something separates the streets that hum from the streets that don't. I've spent my years trying to name it.
Mar 16
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Jeffery Tompkins
12
5
3
Rigid Zoning is a Bottleneck on Indiana's Competitiveness.
Indiana has spent decades perfecting a 20th-century economic playbook: keep taxes low, regulations light and the cost of doing business…
Feb 9
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Jeffery Tompkins
4
Double Up the Lot: Turning Backyards into Bank Accounts
We should start saying "yes in my backyard" quite literally. The result could be generational wealth-creation for long-term residents.
Jan 6
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Jeffery Tompkins
7
1
1
I Want My MTV (Mall to Village): A 6-Step Guide to Retrofitting Suburbia
Stop, collaborate, and listen. It’s time to turn dead retail boxes into living neighborhoods. Just not all of them.
Dec 15, 2025
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Jeffery Tompkins
15
1
2
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