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Thoughts On Mediocre

August 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed.You see a lot of semis on I-5, but one caught my eye last week as I headed out of town on vacation.  On the back and side it said “OK Produce.” That’s it. Why would anyone name their company OK Produce? Do [...]

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Tags: author: steve · books · design · food · housing · sacramento

Taking Green To The Extreme

August 17th, 2008 · No Comments

Check out this incredible project that clearly takes sustainability to a whole new level.
Thanks to Paul Dirksen for sending it to us.

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Tags: architecture · author: levi · eco-urban companies · goals · green industry · website

Jane Jacobs Got It Right

August 13th, 2008 · 4 Comments

In 1961 Jane Jacobs wrote a book called The Death and Life of Great American Cities. I know many of you have read her work and already know just how revolutionary her ideas were. But I want to point out something that comes to mind when reading her work that I believe we may have [...]

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Tags: architecture · author: levi · goals · housing · neighborhoods · sacramento · suburban sprawl · urban design

The List…Top 10 Urban Projects

August 6th, 2008 · 11 Comments

Top 10 urban projects

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Tags: architecture · author: levi · community · design · housing · sacramento · urban design

Repurposed Under Heaven

August 4th, 2008 · 3 Comments

I have heard of adaptive re-use but this is a whole different thing going on here..

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Tags: architecture · author: levi · creativity · housing · recycling

I Love How Simple These Are!

July 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

Typically a rubber tube filled with water will bulge locally when squeezed; and this bulge will propagate along the tube at a speed  c given by

Here E is the tensile modulus of the rubber, d the diameter of the tube, h its wall thickness and rho is the density of water. [...]

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Tags: author: micah · design · energy sources

Urban Gardening On Vacant Land

July 9th, 2008 · 9 Comments

I am very excited about this solution for vacant urban land.  We have often talked about what to do with land that both we and others in our area own and have turned down the idea of a community garden because there are so many stories of gardens that once put in are “permanent”.  And [...]

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Tags: author: levi · community · conservation · creativity · design · food · green living · neighborhoods · resources · sacramento · urban design

Are You Ready For Some Good?

July 8th, 2008 · 6 Comments

I sort of start talking fast when I talk about things that I am passionate about and the Good project is definitely one of those things. Here is a video we made about the Good project. We are going to have an open house on Wednesday from 11 - 3 and again Saturday from 12-4.
The [...]

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Tags: architecture · author: levi · blankblank · community · dream big. live small. do good. · eco-urban · eco-urban 101 dinner · green living · housing · interview · neighborhoods · our blog · the good project · trees · urban design · video · west sacramento

How Could I Resist

July 3rd, 2008 · 3 Comments

I have been trying to do more blogging and less linking here so that you actually get something of value when you come here to the LJ Urban blog.  But look at this jacket, how could I possibly resist posting about it?
Levi

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Tags: author: levi · creativity · design · goodies · our blog · random musings · recycling

I Love This House

June 30th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Sorry its not letting me drag pictures into my post here so you just have to go over and see it for your self… Its really really freakin awesome.  Update:  I figured it out!

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Tags: architecture · author: levi · design · housing · los angeles · urban design