our other speaker is scott anderson. scott anderson's book, "lawrence in ariba yaw, law and deceit, imperial folly and the making of the modern middle east" is fascinating. it is a story of te lawrence you all know, didn't read the book but saw the movie with peter o'toole, was a complicated man whose knowledge of military history and middle eastbu was unprecedented at the time. scott an der son grew up in east asia. his father worked in agriculture as an advisor for the american government. he is att novelist, journalist, and war correspondent, and places he corresponded from, lebanon, israel, egypt, chechnya, sudan and northern ireland. i went on a line to see a list of places that the state department says you shouldn't go. those are all the place that is he go to. the movie, triage, with colin farrell, is based upon his novel. and hunting party, starring richard gere was based on his work in bosnia. what you don't know about him and you wouldn't read is he a part owner of the half-king bar. his partner in the bar is

scott anderson, one of the smartest smieconomists we know. thank you for being here. without taking too many sides, is it possible to grow too fast and what happens if we do? >> absolutely, there's a possibility to grow too fast. when you grow up you feel them. cities are the same way. things like infrastructure, roads, bridges, public transportation systems, housing, these are key things in the metropolitan area. >> are these things we can solve? i mean, we know bridges by growing and gaining taxes to build the bridge, right? >> absolutely, but you have to reinvest in the community. so when you are seeing strong growth, a lot of people moving into the city, immigration doubled since 2009. we need to think about long-term growth rates and what we need to do to sustain. >> one of the problems in san francisco is people don't think about the long term because it's been boom and bust town for a while so you expect it's going to be a bust. and do you think that's the problem? people are expecting that just like happened last time, there's going to be a bus why bother with

scott weiner: okay. talk to dpw. we'll make sure it's available. next speaker. >> chairman wieners, supervisors, my name is brand anderson in a community organization but here as an individual. our supervisor farrell made the same comments as you that if you don't want them they are not going to be there. we made calls about 311 and 1-800. i think dpw who is in charge of this she should have provided you spreadsheets that said we get 150 calls or 311, here are the dates and locations. i don't know if that's occurred. in the same breath i think at&t should be talking to dpw to say we got a call, here is what we did and where we did it and talk about that to communicate. dpw has a long way to go to figure out how to run this process. it appears flawed to me. i would also find a way to identify the box. if i go to say here is box 3, here is the location, everyone knows where it is. it seems simple to me. also try to identify as mr. blake man said the continuation of graffiti. if it's happening on a regular basis, talk to a neighbor and put a camera and try to stop the perpetrator and identify who is doing it all the time especially if it's coming out

scott weiner: thank you very much. before we get to the next speaker let me call the next round. david troop, ronald bencher, kelly, von kerr, pannedrani, kesh baum, oh leery, greg buff in, morena moreno, anderson, and dell seymour. go ahead. >> good afternoon, my name is freud. i'm here to express my opposition to this cabinet. i'm a telecom communication professional myself and i do know a thing about this business. i put this here to remind everybody what you are talking about. we are talking about ugliness and defacing our street and bringing down morale. i'm not going to stand here and complain. i'm going to talk about solutions. how does the city allow at&t to use under the over pass areas that there is no foot traffic or people can't see it. there is a lot of places that city parks it's cars or cal trans. they can use it for these areas. also there are a bunch of public places and many parks that these boxes could be installed but not way they are absolutely not. in cellphone business, a lot of these companies have worked with businesses to create aesthetically pleasing to look like trees or things to hide these ugly boxes where people can't deposit garbage or what have you. also i'm not

. >> scott anderson, ari shavit, thank you very, very much. >> we have books available outside. the authors will be available across the hall to sign them for you. thank you. [inaudible conversations] >> we are talking with james bruce at the national press club. we are looking at his new book on dupont circle. tommy about your new book. >> well, there is about a death in young role, very, very down, 20s and 30s. who came to washington on the eve of world war i. they all lived around dupont circle. there is an out of each other's lives for the next 50 years. and they were franklin roosevelt, eleanor roosevelt, walter lippman the great newspaper columnist, felix frankfurter, the dulles brothers, allen and john foster. most people don't make that connection between all of these people. yet they were very much involved in the league of nations for nation, its collapse and ultimately the creation of the united nations. it all began right here in dupont circle. >> is their social interaction? kind of start there. their political relationships or the other way around? >> they were wha