the final landscape i wanted to describe or landscapes plural, are park systems. this is a great idea. olmstead and vox were the pioneers of the park system building the very first one in the world in buffalo in 1868, and then once olmstead and vox's partnership broke up, olmstead continued on, and he kind of perfected the concept designing a park system in milwaukee, wisconsin, designed one in louisville, kentucky, one in rochester new york, and then the park system in boston. now, one of the things that made the park system a really great idea is it was a series. you can have two or three or more parks that were attached or connected by parkways, but you were no longer tied 20 a single piece of land by a park. you didn't have to have something like central park, which until designed, an unatrackive piece of land. there were attributes. one could be hilly, another might have a nice natural lake, but far more important to olmstead than this variety of land scapes, was the fact it was in the center of the city, a variety of different parks, all of them serving diff

wa the final landscape that its. wanted to describe or landscapes plural is what are known as the park systems. and this is an incredible idea. olmsted and vox were the pioneers of the parks system. they built the very first one io the world in buffalo in 1868, and then once olmsted and vox'se partnership broke up, olmsted continued on, and he kind of perfected the concept. he designed a parks system in milwaukee, wisconsin, heone designed one in louisville, kentucky.lo he designed one in rochester, new york, and famously he doches signed the emerald necklace a park system in boston. one of the things that made thet park system a really great idea was you were no longer -- what it was, it was a series, you could have two or three or more parks. they were attached or they werey connected by parkways.ways but it meant you were no longer tied to a single piece of landas for a park. and you wouldn't have to haveing something like central park which was until the designed a really unattractive piece ofly land.acti instead

this landscape is all about water. and on the last trip you can see the sea of cortez out there on the horizon. we walked to the edge of the dunes and even out there, just past the edge of the dunes, you would find places where there's -- there were piles of pottery, pottery scattered in the sand, and then the desert pan extended out and then you reach the sea of cortez that lies beyond. you know, i should -- i want to show you guys these next slides. i'm kind of running out of time here but i've got to show you this place. i'm not going to go into heavy detail, i want to take you down here into the sierra madre. i was following routes all over for the house of rain, trying to figure out where the anastazi went when they left house of rain. many of them made the modern pueblos but other groups continued south. i followed pottery trails down into the sierra madre where my wife and two others went out and we came to these cliff dwellings. it seemed like every single cave we looked into had cliff dwellings. and this wasn'

canoe, he learned little about surveying but he deepened his appreciation for landscape particularly in connecticut. at this point his father decided time for olmsted to buckle down and to become more serious. so his father are arranged for him to move to brooklyn, got an apartment in brooklyn and also got him a job in manhattan where he would be working for an importing firm. now olmstead was deeply lonely in brooklyn while he was deeply lonely there he also hated the job working for the importing firm. he hated the fact that it was a desk job, he did the long hours and the regimentation. there was really only one thing about the job that olmsted like to come and the was periodically he got to go on board the ships and inventory their wares and while doing this olmstead had a new idea of something that he might like to do with his life. he decided he wanted to become a sealer. once again this made sense. sailing was one of the professions available to people in that era. they didn't have much formal schooling he came out very honestly a whole long line if he went back generation aft

it may be that it's not a landscape that makes you feel small, it's a landscape that gets rid of your sense of scale entirely because there have been so many times out there in the deep of winter camping for week after week in the open desert where at night it gets down to 10 below or 15 below zero and there's nothing in your life but the sky and the stars. and you are looking up into the sky and you think, i could just stand and walk into stars. i could become a giant. there are times in the desert when you are not small but you are infinite. you take up everything. there is no boundary between you and it. when i look at the artifacts that the anastazi made, especially the painted black and white, i see that landscape. i see the colorado plateau. hi

there is a zone on the left for landscape. a continuous strand in need the trees. pedestrian zone on the right. the bronze and glass can that be there is actually the entrance to the residential project, and there is a continuous edge to the street, which steps in height from 6 to 1 to 12 stories. said within that eds on the right side of the drawing is the entrance to public parking and glimpses into what we think will be a very beautiful residential garden, which is private but not completely screen from the public, so there are opportunities to be enriched by that, to see into it, and looking at ways to display art. so an overall view from the east, showing the massing of the building as it steps up towards the south and up towards the west, towards the towers of the financial district and beyond. in this view from the north in the air, you can get a sense of the way the green roof, the living room of the club and the pools, really are to date -- articulate the idea that the club is a pavilion within a single open space, rather than dividing open spaces to the n

disparate tribes and ethnic groups lended with a perfectly divine landscape which is in stark contrast to any other place in this country. like in centuries past today most of the conventional response the population there are no roads for hundreds of kilometers think most people get to the remote villages by helicopter i see michael. so and most of the common peninsula lies on low hills here you also find mountains and valleys covered with thick woodland and death of the tundra and this small region of stark and natural diversity attracts tourists from across the world the form bike is the most popular means of transport here for the tourists. at the roads are few and far between around here an accord is the best bet when it comes to traveling over such terrain of a bit of a quad bike will take you to places that no other car can reach or. the color peninsula makes up. and lies within the arctic circle to the north it's washed by the bering sea but in the south it's met by the white sea and region is known as the gateway to the arctic. this is the starting point of most sightseeing wh

meanwhile sixty kilometers south of the arctic tundra lies a totally different landscape but by evening since there is or is it behind these technical installations. we always have to unlock the gate before answering it but get around that now we'll open it like this. there's a boy there is there is territories under lock and key and as you can see the gate is quite massive now we can go in this way please when the reserve was being created in one thousand nine hundred two most of the military installations built soon after world war two and become obsolete or fallen into decay what was once a border guard tower was renovated and handed over to the reserve now on a fall or just use the former military installation for scientific purposes if you look at the heart of it offers a fantastic view of the bands river the entire reserve and the marshes we've. reserved visitors and tourists are welcome to see all that and take pictures. most of the reserve territory is covered with marshes there are ideal for bird rookeries in spring and autumn when thousands of migrating birds stop over to rest

, particularly the landscape of connecticut. when olmsted was 14 years old, he got a terrible case of poisen sumac that preed into his eyes. into this point, he contrived to get a letter from the doctor that indicated he no longer needed to go to school. he was delighted, but this meant at a very young age, he needed to find a profession. now, the first thing he lit upon, it kind of made sense, and it was ill ledge call. he wanted to be a surveyor. that's a profession available in this era at least to someone with limited formal schooling, but surveying requires eagle sharp vision, and he is the bout of sumac, but he pressed ahead, arranged an apprenticeship under a surveyor, and he proceeded into completely abuse to situation. well pretending to learn the useful trade of surveying, olmsted wandered around hiking, fishing, paddling in the canoe, learning very, very little about surveying. he deepened his appreciation for land scape, particularly the land scape of connecticut. at this point, his father decided it was time for olm

so it's a connector, a wil dynamic landscape like no other. >> rose: a look at college sports and also the penn state case as well as one of new york's new miracles, the high line, when we continue. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> the child molestation scandal at penn state has rocked the nation. it also raises important questions about how such abuse can take place under the roof of one of america's most added a mired and respected football programs. who is to blame and what can be done to preevents is a topic occurring under consideration for universities across the country. taylor branch is a pulitzer prize winning historian. he writes about college sports and its problems with governance in "the cartel: insid theise and imminent fall of the n.c.a.a. " joe nocera is a columnist in for the "new york times". he's written three pieces in the last weeks about the penn state scandal and the fall of joe paterno. john wertheim co-wrote this week's cover story of supports illustrated called "the failure and shame of pen

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from that 25, we went through and chose tend to realize in the landscape. >> including this building, which is an amazing example of recycling. >> we are proud of this space. it was designed by a local architecture team. we said, we need something that is a temporary structure, something that can be brought onto the presidio in pieces, act as an exhibition space for one year. we came up with the notion of shipping containers. it was important for us that we made this project for the place, of the place. what i mean by that is participants would also used repurchased materials. >> we will be speaking to one of the artists that you selected. what excited you about his idea? >> have many things. first of all, i am a fan of his architecture. because of that creativity, i knew that he could come up with something unique. i love the fact that he was specifically addressing the landscape around here, and it was also about the human interaction with this place. >> what are your expectations with the people coming to presidio habitat? >> we really hope people will come with their family, dogs,

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there is civil work and landscaping work associated with the project. it is a very exciting waterfront project and will result in a nice improvement to the area. the next project i wanted to mention is the public safety building. this is a building that is being funded by general only bond. it is a significant project that includes police headquarters, a district police station and a fire house station. this contract is going to start bidding and prequalifying contractors. it is being led by panco construction. they have broken down their contract into 34 packages. those are included on the list in the flyer we have in the back. their bitting is this month and will go through june of 2012. construction is corrected to take six months. all of our projects are listed on our website, but we wanted to highlight two where we are current and that we will be starting in the next several months. thank you. [applause] >> hi name is jeff. i am here representing san francisco interpret airport, and i'm here with sandra crumple research who heads up our small busin

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never before have we celebrated asian pacific heritage month and the landscape as we are today.h the ever-changing population, with the political landscape, heck, we even saw the first chinese american nba player, and we are proud to be part of it and celebrate throughout the month of may. so thank you very much for having us. [applause] >> we have our returning heritage champion, pacific gas and electric represented by ontario smith. ontario? and pg&e has been there since day one. [applause] [applause] and next joining us at the heritage partners level we have rebecca delgado representing the academy of universities. is rebecca here? [applause] and representing at&t we have jason chan. jason? jason is probably busy making phone calls. right here. [applause]

they can be beneficial if it contained a more natural landscape and even worked toward a community gardeneighbors of the community college of san francisco can attend. if it contains benches and tables i believe it will bring the students to study and me go outside rather than being contained to and in your library -- and mingle outside rather than being contained in an indoor library. there are numerous restaurants in ocean avenue, and it will give them a place to sit outdoors and properly dispose of the leftovers. it will that a fund -- benefit from it. [inaudible] the sentence is the planning commission certified the final environmental and back report in which supports another reason why this should be granted. granting sufficient funds so they can relocate the muni bus. this public plaza has the potential to bring surrounding communities together in a place for students how to interact in a more natural landscape. i look forward to hearing the outcome and hopefully one day visiting the plaza. supervisor mar: thank you. >> i'm brittany hammond from san francisco state university. i am

it is a huge shift that has taken place and right now we are in a niche media landscape. we do less of what i would say is walter cronkite type broadcasting. we do much more of what i think is more of the narrowcasting and you get people locked into these boxes perpetuated by the fact that the base wilton and and reaffirm their preexisting points a few and the people in the middle, you can count on them. this is driving the political polarization in washington too. where do we go in the next generation? how do we deliver an interesting and fun and sexy and compelling product and at the same time make it is a double of credibility? to me to finish up on the notion of journalism, i think it is important that people realize even in discussing a topic like terrorism that as we are here today the political cartoonist in seattle in hiding because she drew muhammed and people immediately sent in death threats. it is important to understand that you have to be honest enough to say this is the impact terrorism has not only globally but in the united states in terms of inhibiting f

project was enhanced a bid to create a community park, rather than just standard landscaping, and its-year lease has one single payment of $5,000 for the ability for the city to use this. this is probably something that should be something around $400,000, $500,000 per year, so it is a pretty good deal for the city. we have in your package a referral, indicating conformance with the plan, and this has been through a citizen advisory process, both the site and the design, and i want to thank personally my colleagues at caltrans, working hard to have this work. it was determined it was in the best interest of the public to create this part on public land, and create a mechanism to have that happen at fairly low cost to the public. supervisor mar: so i see no questions from my colleagues. this is something like getting it for nothing. it is not suitable for housing, more open space, and you said and 20,000 square foot dog park, that is adjacent to where the ramp is? >> yes, it is. supervisor mar: let's open this up for public comment. is there anyone from the public who would like to spe

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and at the same time enjoy it but it's only a view of the landscape. that i saw how he started falling down the stream to the grand. best kid a cherished blend at the foothills of ancient mountains. is a republican central russia in southern poland is often acclaimed as one of russia's most spectacular natural features here the plane gradually blends with the old. in the southern europe is where europe in asia meet the landscape seems to absorb the best of what nature has to offer on both continents that is the place this place is surrounded by three nature reserves and three mountain ranges. move the front. a little bit higher. pull this bit back all of the work of the most of these twelve tourists. this is the first tory they have ridden the whole. yes there's a group in a ten man group only one has ever been on horseback. our job is to teach people how to saddle brush and bridle horses. just this movie is the starting point of a tourist route to the republic's most famous sites. it will culminate in a sense of mouth shut the highest mountain in the

security using water or using landscaping walls various things are said early devices but they'll look like said they like these bowler like barriers disguised as flower pots thank god for now bees structures however on site late all remain a permanent fixture in a city fixated on security and bureaucratic status and washington and liz wall are taking. all right we are almost out of time becoming the next right here on our team that capital account with lauren lister. hey there lauren it looks like the dow took a little plunge today i imagine you'll touch upon this subject absolutely the dow took a pretty big lunch today christine was down more than four hundred points at one point it closed down three hundred eighty nine points but it's so much more than just volatility in the market and a bad day in the market will explain why this is going on and you don't have to look any further than what's happening in italy and the rest of the eurozone to explain why this is that the bigger picture is why this matters and what impact it could have a lord it's not just a around europe certainly t

the horizon, a black line against brilliant white landscape, pale blue sky above it, empty except for heat devil blur, a raindrop sound hits a wooden post against cloudless light, another, the lamb, his children, wife, then he drenched in bullet rain. blue. the final moment of night passing, exposes limbs, torsos, heads, breasts, humans, cows, goats, curved and knotted heaps, lays blue against bitten grass. final piece, the title is the headline for a newspaper. anti-war activist immoh lates along kennedy's express way near giant flame of the millennium skull up tour 4 days before november 2006 elections and no one pays attention. everything but the heart reduced to ash. thank you. . >> i just want to thank george for bringing to bear some of the numbers, some of the horrific things that are happening in iraq right now. this poem was drawn from my experiences in iraq from the culture, from the music and from its traditions. so i have dedicated this poem to iraq. i think it will be helpful for you to know el kubenchi, along with el watanabi. el kubenchi is famous for music, a great his