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Incremental Growth

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…
 • Jeffery Tompkins
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.
 • Jeffery Tompkins
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.
 • Jeffery Tompkins
From Strip to Hip
Cities should create a Shopping Center Potential Index to understand where limited municipal resources should be spent
 • Jeffery Tompkins
Will AI Replace Concept Work Done by Architects?
Hint: it already has
 • Jeffery Tompkins
Don't Eliminate Single-Family Housing, Expand its Definition
Family-oriented housing is the real path forward.
 • Jeffery Tompkins
Why Your City Should Build a Retail Strategy
(And How They Can Do It) - aka thinking outside the Big Box
 • Jeffery Tompkins
Your Garage Might Be the Most Underrated Room in the City
How once car-first spaces can become the new urban frontier
 • Jeffery Tompkins
Porches as Social Infrastructure
How 6–10 feet of space can change how neighbors live together.
 • Jeffery Tompkins
How Cities Lost the Art of Incremental Growth Pt. 1
Why does so much new development feel soul sucking? How can we get back?
 • Jeffery Tompkins
Pt. 1: What is Four-Dimensional Planning?
Thoughts on emergent theory and why it might (and should?) apply to city planning
 • Jeffery Tompkins
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