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Jeffery Tompkins

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Jeffery Tompkins

@JATompkins

Founder @planproformus // urban planner & place builder 🏗️// writin’ about cities // Midwest 🇺🇸

Indianapolis

thinkingbigbythinkingsmall.com

Joined September 2009

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Jeffery Tompkins
@JATompkins
Feb 3
It’s time to rethink what farms can be. Farms can be neighborhood focused. They can be hyperlocal. They can fit on your block. It's time to reconnect people with food. And we're providing the playbook for free @planproformus and @Area2Farms
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Jeffery Tompkins
@JATompkins
Sep 27, 2022
The Plains states are not the Midwest. I won't be taking questions
Jeffery Tompkins
@JATompkins
Jul 9, 2025
it should be legal for your neighborhood to have a corner bar you can walk to
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Jeffery Tompkins
@JATompkins
Nov 8, 2025
Looks like a parking lot with a side of baseball
BaseballHistoryNut
@nut_history
Nov 8, 2025
Dodger Stadium aerial view
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Jeffery Tompkins
@JATompkins
Jul 21, 2025
One thing I wish we could take from Mexico City are their camellóns - interior trails within the median of streets
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Jeffery Tompkins
@JATompkins
Sep 25, 2024
this kind of walkable fall aesthetic is illegal to build in most american cities
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Jeffery Tompkins
@JATompkins
Aug 4, 2021
Dems: climate change is real! Believe in science!! Dems infrastructure plan:
Jeffery Tompkins
@JATompkins
Oct 26, 2025
CDMX is one of most beautiful cities in the world
urban cowboy
@xurbanxcowboyx
Oct 25, 2025
Urban life in Mexico City is undefeated
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Jeffery Tompkins
@JATompkins
Jun 5, 2025
A lesson from Mexico City: Microretail. Everywhere
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Jeffery Tompkins
@JATompkins
Jun 6, 2025
Another lesson from Mexico City: Street trees make all the difference.
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Jeffery Tompkins
@JATompkins
Jun 5, 2025
ok this goes so hard
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Jeffery Tompkins
@JATompkins
Oct 16, 2025
US cities had tons of public restrooms but people opposed them since they weren’t free and now they’re all gone sound familiar?
City Aesthetics ⛩
@cityaestheticss
Oct 16, 2025
American cities should have more public restrooms
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Jeffery Tompkins
@JATompkins
Oct 31, 2025
This should be legal to build in your neighborhood
Brandon Donnelly
@donnelly_b
Oct 31, 2025
Zero-setback house in Tokyo, designed by Haryu Wood Studio & Selma Masic. Three levels, family of four, and just 63 square meters in total area.
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Jeffery Tompkins
@JATompkins
Oct 20, 2025
microretail should be allowed on residential lots
Jeffery Tompkins
@JATompkins
Oct 20, 2025
garages are the new porches. I discuss how in my latest: open.substack.com/pub/thinkingbi…
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