this is an effort that is presented by the fda but the organization has done by livable city. we don't have a lot of resources. in the various places we visit -- this has provided much-needed support in terms of programming, outreach and marketing and other things we would have to go without or pay for. fillmore has been a great partner, and i don't know if you were able to make it out last weekend on september 11, but there was a lot of activity in all the neighborhoods, and most robustly in the film more and meghan mitchell worked very diligently to marshal fantastic music and great events, fun things for the whole family, helping with programming and marketing, letting the neighborhood know about changes to parking and traffic, and including sunday streets as part of the international artists week. in closing, this is an important institution and meghan worked very hard to support the merchants that bring life to this corridor. i really wanted to go on record by saying that sunday streets would not have been as successful without the staff. >> other members of the public? >

tom, executive director of livable city. i was one of the two cochairs of the transportation task force. we have actually finished our work, but i wanted to present it to you today. it is agreed that i am falling after toby, because the thing that we were able to do, which did not happen in eastern neighborhoods is really look at transportation and land uses as two sides of the same coin and integrate them as best we can. i will show you policies, not actual projects. they are policies and are in the plan. they will be in the area planning. some of them are happening. i will speak in a little bit to the ways that some of these are actually happening. if i can direct your attention to the map on on the mat -- first of all, let me back up. the existing transportation situation in western soma is dominated by one mode of transportation, the automobile. the city has really put the needs of the region and the city-wide needs ahead of neighborhood needs. so what you have is a physical environment that is totally dominated by autom

and to take a look at the city's livable wage ordinance, the spirit of it. there is some question whether employees are independent contractors, i do not think there is any doubt that the idea behind the city's livable wage is that working class people should be able to survive. thank you. >> our next speaker is. >> i urge you to sever in their minds the idea of 11 and 12. please pass item 11, no matter what you do with 12. we have had six weeks of income forgone that cannot be gone back. as far as item 12, on the matter of you selling new medallions out right, not only must you appear to come to your decisions -- not only must you come to your decisions with clean hands, you must appear to. this does muddy the waters a bit since you would be raising money off of these medallions. i do like with a peak time medallions, i do like the idea that -- i am not not about the drivers having to pay a monthly fee but i like that it can be mitigated by showing they are taking radio calls. i urge you to pass this experiment although there remember in the future the numbe

to keep it a secret to make the experiment valid and true, but we live, as you know in a very livable cityws, so why not finding why we buy what we buy, so it was incredible. i didn't feel we got duped at all. >> jim you bought some of the products they pushed as well? >> i was looking for a present for my wife which is every man, husband's nightmare and all the sudden i went by a store and saw pandora jewelry which gina told me about so i bought her -- >> the bracelet. martin what does the experiment tell us first of all? >> nine out of ten brands were bought. >> nine out of ten? wow. >> nine out of ten. shocking news, one of the brands had a sales increase of 1,000%. 13,000 people were influenced by those people, 13,000 people. >> future marketing right here. is this it? >> it is, all sorts of different techniques used by sleeper cell families, all that stuff taking over. >> you don't know what your neighbors are selling you. good to have you all here, martin, gina, jim and elise. we'll be back with more on "weekend today" as well. >>> first a mom who invented herself as an escape artist

and i am pleased to yield now to my colleague from oregon, the champion of livable cities, a minute, to speak on this topic. mr. blumenauer: i appreciate the gentlelady's courtesy. i appreciate your offering this amendment. my friends on the other side of the aisle can't have it both ways. there has been a lot of study. for heaven's sakes, e.p.a. has already estimated cost of compliance less than $1 billion, and the savings to americans from lives saved, health care costs devoided, and days of work and school not missed between 120 and 2 $280 billion. this is a part of the study effort that has been going on for 20 years. we had hoped that on the 25th anniversary of the clean air act in 2015 we would probably have full compliance. and yet we are quibbling here about things that e.p.a. has been unable to monetize like a birth defect, but for heaven's sakes it's serious. in addition to the hundreds of billions that they can monetize. this is, i think, unfortunate that if this approach is approved, that will enable the chinese to -- will enable the chinese to get ahead of us again. reme

livable for everyone. >> let's talk about the role of sports in the city's economic future. are you happy with the plans for the america's cup? do you think the city should try it spend money to keep the 49ers? supervisor mar: did not get me started. i could go on for a long time. i think america's cup will help the whole area. i think the organizing committee has a big task to raise a lot of private sector money so it does not impact negatively on our general fund, but i do think the deal crafted by a lot of the enforcement is a good deal will help a lot of the parts of the city that need the help. it is also a lot of gauging of community groups and the yacht club saying that they want to provide better boating opportunities and education for young people in the mission district or, hopefully, in the mission or other places. but i know that as the america's cup moves forward, there are many community-based groups that want to be part of it. we recently had communications from the parks council wanting to ensure the swimming and blue and green projects could be created with

brace helping the spurs to a big win over the livable also in the busy day full of school twice in the second half to come back from two down against man cityin sunderland all their goals were the first play as they thrashed stoke deal. now in spain real madrid have been know down by live on pay as they lost one male and one of sunday's fixed as the sole goal coming in they sixty eight minutes live on to converting one of the few stripes on managed to hold on to that one meal advantage handing. us most of the primera liga season but a frustration for coach. especially following saturday's go fast the no camp where boss is low in the human aided also still in the firing eight times without reply five of those could see him just a two man david be eating a brace while the no messy put in a hat trick says fabregas and harvey also in the school should do the catalans big victory and one of the girls was a no one assessing the play at a bar some back to winning ways after a couple of jewels the eight neil result is a record tying school for both the catalan speak like that all of us with the same margin back in one thousand nine hundred six whil

trades, make sure that people can earn a livable wage, that they can stay here in san francisco, and we will do what we can make sure families remain in the city. we cannot do it alone without our friends in business, without all of you. we need to work together to make sure san francisco remains a unique and diverse and innovative place. with our progress in creating san francisco as an innovative business hub, it is essential we continue to invest in our residents, our businesses, and our infrastructure. without this commitment with our partners in the business sector, we will not be succeeding. i want to assure you that you have a grateful mayor every day that will work with you to get this done. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you. so much good news there. john has been planning director for the city and county of san francisco since 2008, having come here after five years as planning director for the city of seattle. all i hear is that was a good higher, so i am not going to get heavily into his biography. he is at work on a series of comprehensive neighborhood plans, city-wide historic resource survey, updates on the general pla

of course, it turned out that, of course, it turned out that, um, that cities became very livable, right and were exactly where everyone wanted to be. and they did, you know, and they also became a lot healthier over time. >> host: sylvia nasar is our guest. here is her latest book, "grand pursuit: the story of economic jeep yus." if you want to talk with our author, 202-737-2002 in the mountain and pacific time zone. you can also send her a tweet or an e-mail, booktv@cspan.org. sylvia nasar, who was alfred marshall? >> guest: alfred marshall was the person who turned economics from the dismal science into the cheerful science because he discovered that, that there was a, that there was a mechanism that was going to drive the average living standard up, and that was productivity. that was, that was all these businesses, all these, um, these firms that were being driven by competition to become more efficient, to be able to produce more with the same resources. and that -- but his real contribution was to say that that is going to push up real wages. the same competition that makes busine