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I read a fascinating post today on Strangeharvest about surfaces and how modern design has all but obliterated texture from our architectural vocabulary. I think that a similarity can be drawn to the monotony of the suburb. We have tried to scrub from [...]

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Thanks Dustin for sending this great article about the safety in numbers for bicyclists.
Also…  that reminds me. Every year West Sacramento does this really neat event on the waterfront called the Neighbors fair.  It starts with a good old hometown parade and then moves over to the Riverwalk park across from old Sac and there [...]

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A while back we did a post about urban temporary gardens. Now head over and check out the post today on the Oak Park Now site. I love when ideas like this take off and run on their own!

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I was not sure if I wanted to get on the blog here and start talking about this project until I was further along but I am beginning to think that the benefits of including everyone in the process outweigh the risk of humiliation if this thing were never to get published.
Its a tough thing [...]

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Recently we posted the first in a series called Open Mic. The way we see it blogs and the Internet are increasingly replacing newspapers as the place people go for their daily drip of information, and we see our blog as just one of your stops along the way as you seek to learn more [...]

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See that new little thing that showed up to the left? Pretty cool huh..?
We added a widget from Flickr that allows us to take photos from our phones then and they pop up on there. Kind of a dorky thing I know. But it makes us feel special, and after all don’t we all just [...]

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Not that we have an award for something like this but this one from a few days ago would win it for sure.
William Burg on Presenting: LJ Urban’s Open Mic 8-28-08
You want to know how I sum up the difference between neighborhood activists in Citrus Heights and neighborhood activists in downtown Sacramento? The Citrus Heights [...]

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I received an email a few days ago from our insurance guy and wanted to share it here. This is one of the things that we have always been excited about with LJ Urban. You could call it the ripple effect or if you wanted to get fancy the domino effect. (OK lame attempt at [...]

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The following is the first of LJ Urban’s Open Mic series. Where we invite you to write about the ins and outs of urban life. Email your entries to Levi(at)LJUrban(dot)com
The first post is from Ian Merker, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP. Ian currently works with MFDB Architects and is passionate about urban life here in Sacramento.
A [...]

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I just heard today that the Sacramento Magazine released its list of the top 100 Powerful people and that you can go onto their site and vote for your top 10.  I was happy to see some very good people made it on the list. My top 10 looked like this.
(Update:   I am adding Sena [...]

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