one of maria's most famous performances was as tosca in covent garden in 1964.ping magnate aristotle 0nassis, the paparazzi hounded her. have you talked to mr onassis? all my friends. i am answering no more questions. she was characteristically defiant. i don't read the criticisms, because, you see, i know exactly what i do before anybody tells me, but the best critic is the public. angelina jolie's two eldest sons, fax and maddox, worked as production assistants on the film. it was good to have your children watch your mum not do something easily. but they've of course seen me go through many things, but they hadn't experienced me expressing a lot of the pain that usually a parent hides from a child. your voice will not return. vocal decline, possibly caused by dramatic weight loss, led to the premature end of maria's career. maria callas spent her last years living largely in isolation. she died of a heart attack at the age of 53 on september 16th, 1977. crowds lined the streets to pay their respects. we've all been through joy, love, pain. the most quite deep

you know, of course, times square that global comparisons would be places covent garden, pedestrians areas of the paris case copenhagen central streets. so there are some areas where no you don't want cars you want something like a free bus service going through those areas. and there are other places where you want to narrow the road, but you want traffic going more slowly. ocean parkway in brooklyn is a good example. you're not going to get rid of the cars there, but we've succeeded with the speed and red light cameras that you don't have people driving through there now at 50 miles an hour. people are going 25 miles an hour. you know that itself in itself is a success. so, yes, most us need to be in a car sometime, but making sure that they are fitting themselves into the streetscape rather than dominating the streetscape is is is the is the goal here. and, you know maybe you hate transit, you hate pedestrian plazas, you hate bike. you should read the book just so that you understand how all of these things came to be. great. let me open it up now for questions from the audience,

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