they homogenize the difference between those in the city, we could extend gertrude stein and say thatthis is not anywhere. my first book was about the american suburbs. the book i am finishing now has about chinese urbanism. in china the fragmenting phenomenon most rampant right now. when i am there, this is san francisco that i use as an example of planners and architects working to sustain urbanism. i feel like today there is the easy job of preaching to the choir. the question is, how do we make individual actions in the city at up? preservation is not enough. there is no such thing as a building that does not contribute when it comes to the urban identity. how can this change to be more identifiable, more legible, and a distinct urban fabric. some may be perilously close to having no "there" there. this area of soma may just be a district people drive through on the way to the highway. there is the eclectic collection of buildings and there is no area of building types of similar building material, there are not even that many buildings that are historical landmarks. one of the ke

so you know, gertrude stein famously, a rose is a rose is a rose. say a tax is a tax is a tax about healthcare but mitt romney says no. you shouldn't call it a tax because it's not a tax right? >> yeah well -- >> bill: interesting to see the split among republicans. they can't get their act together here. >> i was waiting to see how they would react. because right after the supreme court ruling, you had every republican come out and really hammer this idea that this was a tax. and that they were going to stick it to obama. >> the largest tax increase. >> bill: somebody said yesterday in the history of the world. >> that's point one on the list of talking points. >> i think it was like 45 different republicans were on television and radio and in papers saying this. it was really every single person but we didn't hear anything from romney until yesterday morning when eric fehrnstrom who's basically one of his top guys, top strategists -- >> bill: etch-a-sketch fehrnstrom -- >> famous for the etch-a-sketch comments. we disagree and we don't agree this