why to make a linear park that connected parks so he hired alexander garvin who is a world-famous city planner who i also got to know through this to come down here and to try to figure out what kind of a parks you could have and atlanta is severely under parked. we have a lot of trees in this city, beautiful trees, but most of them aren't people's backyards, not in public places. in metro atlanta, which is this huge sprawling mess up 6 million people or so now, they are losing land at an alarming rate, losing trees at an alarming rates. so, where was i? [laughter] >> let me mention while i'm thinking about it, my mother here is the author of a book called "neighborhood naturalist" and she hopes to start trees atlanta with a woman named marsha began fully, which has turned into a huge organization which is building on arboretum on the beltline. oh, i know i was talking about alexander gardner, so they came down and got in a helicopter to look around this whole area and see what they might see and suddenly he said, what is that. there was a huge hole in the ground, a quarry in westside

he hired alexander garvin, a world famous city planner, who i also got to know through this, to come down here to try to figure out what kind of parks you could have. and atlanta is severely underparked. we have a lot of trees in this city, beautiful trees, but most of them are in people's backyards. most of them are not in public places. in metro atlanta, which is this huge sprawling mess of six million people now, they're losing land at an alarming rate and losing trees at an alarming rate. >> watch this and other problems online at booktv.org. >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to barnes & noble upper west side. tonight i have the distinct pleasure of introducing auth