federal funding supported raising city land, either to build new infrastructures, or for urban renewal it was at this time that there was a cultural paradigm shift in the rebuilding of the cities. everything was a clear sight, without historical or cultural or formal connection to the larger context, which is the city. as a result, the emphasis for building uniqueness moved from the urban fabric to the individual building. distinctiveness was and still is achieved by intentionally separating and disengaging the project from its context. buildings were associated with corporations or architectural source of form, not the place. i can talk about los angeles. when the objects are more important than the relation, the objects are more important than the relations between the project. vehicles seem to dominate the public spacing. urbanism is fragmented. today, we have a culture that rewards the extraordinary, ordinary, rather than making the ordinary, extraordinary. there is no there there, and this is part of the effect of fragmenting. they homogenize the difference between those in the ci

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. >> they predict that more a huge conferences and new infrastructure and the world class of four seasons hotel will continue to help drive the numbers even higher. the celebration visitation and economic impact figures will not be released until october but they have huge expectations. >> that was 10 days. we could not have been blessed with better weather. we have the most wonderful activities spread across a great deal of the waterfront. we have an inkling that they will be great numbers. >> we have everything from the mountains to the west to the ocean in the east, the day in the middle. >> henican group in denmark will be in trouble after labor day. take a look. -- a pelican intend -- a kangaroo in denmark will be in trouble after labor day. this is a genetic flaw that causes the albino tender route to be sensitive to sunlight. experts say they rarely survive in the wild. there is a good reason why this little orphan looks different. it is not a dog, it is a spot of lamb. it was rejected by his mother but quickly adopted by this dalmatian dog. the owner of the farm thought was kind o

putting an end to tax breaks for job outsourcers like mitt romney's bain capital investing in new infrastructure a living wage for all workers including health and retirement benefits a progressive income tax and assertion that health care is a right not a privilege support for a woman's right to choose support for stem cell research and the decriminalization and regulation of marijuana just like tobacco and alcohol so look at these two platforms. how can anybody say there's possibly say there's no difference between republicans and democrats republicans want to outlaw pornography democrats want to legalize marijuana republicans want to get rid of the minimum wage democrats want everyone to receive at least a living wage republicans want to deny global warming and teach creationism in our schools democrats want to move forward with stem cell research and help us again graduate world class scientists republicans want to throw women in jail who get raped and want an abortion democrats want to support a woman's right to choose republicans want fat cats to pay no income taxes whatsoever democrats wa

. >> reporter: they predict more huge conversations in baltimore, and new infrastructure and the worldss four seasons hotel will continue to help drive the numbers higher in 2012. the celebration visitation and economic figures won't be released until october. >> that was ten days. we couldn't have been blessed. we had the most wonderful activities spread across the water front. so we're very, very -- we have a little inkling they are going to be great numbers. >> we have everything. from the mountains in the west, to the ocean in the east, the bay in the middle. >>>> reporter: in baltimore, wbal tv 11 news. >> romney is expected to make a big announcement in just a few hours. we'll have the details coming up. >> london olympics not over yet. when we come back a look at what to expect from today's games. >> baltimore weather. storms ahead of us. and the weekend forecast jus >> you are watching wbal tv 11. live. local. late breaking. this is 11 news saturday morning. >> welcome back to 11 news saturday morning. thanks for joining us. >> top stories in a minute. first a check with john.

they began building the infrastructure of new york in 1872. from the subways to the sewers, the water tunnels to the highway tunnels, new york city thrives because of their work. ryan: you got one little hole in the ground, and nobody knows we're here. see the empire state building, right. that's 1,000 feet. so you figure, you go down 1,000. how high that is -- that's how far we go down. narrator: stretching more than 60 miles under the city, tunnel 3 is taking generations of workers to complete. ryan: i don't even want to imagine what my father had to go through. when we first started, it was a rough job. everything was dynamite. now, they have these machines called "moles." it's like a big drill, and it just cuts right through the ground. so there's no more dynamite. and it's still a rough job, but it's gotten to a point where it's a lot safer. in the '70s, we lost a man a mile basically. here, maybe we've had two or three deaths in the last 20 years, which is too much anyway, but it's cut down a lot. hurwitz: city tunnel number 3 will be an

new or build it from the ground up like some of the nfc enabled solutions which both require new infrastructurend require new behavior on the part of the user. so, if i'm those other players and payments i'm probably a little nervous about this. >> professor it's good to have your insights on the show today. thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you. >> we asked you whether or not you would use mobile payments and which companies may jump on the band wagon next. >> that's right. let's take a look at all the tweets. a lot of different responses that we got. here's how traders are cashing in on the square starbucks deal. a lot of shorts are targeting mobile payment players. staff bucs takes a private company to work with rather than one of the larger publicly traded mobile players is concerning a lot of investors. veriphone is a major short here on the square starbucks deal he thinks square will kick them out of nyc taxis. and next to jump in the mobile payments a lot of interesting responses. i see jcpenneys and mcdonald's all jumping into the mobile payments space within a year. and lastly, w

up, it will tap the cooperative potential between our two sides while in many areas such as infrastructure, new energy, biomedicine, electronics, information industry, agriculture, and high and manufacturing. mayor lee echoed positive statements to our proposal before we came to this seminar. we had a very good meeting with mayor lee. he and san francisco will give us positive and strong support. i would like to say thanks to mayor lee. we also -- always believed san francisco is an important port and trade and cultural center in the western part of the united states. it has a long history of business and cultural exchange with china. as i come to san francisco this time, i have some new feelings. i have been to san francisco many times but no time like this time that makes me more convinced that both sides share a stronger desire for corp. and no time like this time that i sense -- for cooperation. there are nmany opportunities in front of us, especially in the field of infrastructure. as i said this time, i have a delegation of 100 people coming from 40 companies. many of them in fact special

one of the most important elements to be a major new investment in our nation's infrastructure. new roads, bridges, transit, ports. if you look at the reports by the american society of civil engineers, not a right-wing group or a left-wing group, they give the united states a grade of d when it comes to infrastructure. if we will compete with international competitors, we need a 21st century infrastructure. an energy infrastructure, the foundations that help move goods and services around the country and the world. the president proposed $50 billion. major initiative. he proposed additional measures to help small businesses. that was in september. we have not had a vote in the house of representatives on the president's jobs initiative. we have now voted 37 times in the house of representatives to repeal obamacare, the affordable care act, but not a single vote on the rest of the president's jobs initiative. now less september the president also submitted a plan for long-term deficit reduction. we have to big parties. one is to nurture and boost the fragile recovery we remain in

new. now, our infrastructure is old. 100, 200 years old. it's not been upgraded or fixed or replaced, sometimes, ever. man: if these systems are not maintained, sooner or later they're going to fail. they all have a life expectancy. if you don't maintain them and constantly check them and then do what's necessary to rehabilitate or repair, you're going to have a big problem. and they're going to collapse. they're going to fail. and all of a sudden, the water, or the sewage that normally goes through them, will not have any place to go. it'll back up into homes, it'll back up onto the street. it's normally out of sight, out of mind. once it comes to the surface, it's a whole 'nother animal. melosi: you're talking about system-wide problems that would take tremendous human resources to correct. this is true with drinking water, as well as wastewater. man: first, our top story. thousands of people are without water tonight. woman: a flash flood of the manmade kind. apparently, a 12-inch pipe burst. take a look behind me. this water main break

public lations campaign to try to get out t the message that they are trying to build new work, more modern infrastructure like i have imagined that they havave in northern virginia pimping then you have an emergrgency situation -- in northern virginia. then you have an emergency situation. >> there were still some compelling numbers showing that pepco had some work to do. and thee call center is they set to improve public reaction time. >> it is communication with the customers tends to be their acachilles' heel. they have always struggled to get the reputation out. anything that goes wrong, if they do not jump on it and get their message out and tell we arworking on it and we will get you back they are going to get cshed again. >> i think there are good people at pepco and out in the field but theyey have some work to do them been talkg about reputation, the city has taken several hits in the national dia for the ongoing investigation. you were quoted inhe new york tis saying you are ary seeing these revelations about this shadow campaign knowing that you worked hard to get the mayor elected and a lot o

all the news, say organizers, will be within 15 minutes of the olympic village. for rio, this means serious investment in infrastructure. a new freeway is being built through the middle of the city. new tunnels and cable cars for the tourists. whole neighborhoods are being torn down and rebuild. rio is also aiming to raise the bar in respect to sustainability, claiming there's will be the first co2-neutral games. an initial symbolically move as the city's new sustainability- focused museum of tomorrow. >> for us, it is important the city draw long-term benefits from the olympics. we do not just want to tear down and rebuild. we would much rather use and develop what we already have. >> a prime example, rio's legendary soccer stadium which is slated to host the opening ceremony and the soccer matches. it seats nearly 80,000, and the olympic committee wants to see it sold out. >> we know how to organize large evens for big crowds. our last rock festival attracted over 200,000 spectators. that will set apart from london. >> average ticket prices will be 30 euros. rio wanted to be a huge celebration. she hopes to do her pa