the diversity of nature that exists in such an urban city, concrete streets, cars, we have this oasis of the natural environment. it reminds us of what the history was. >> there is a section for dogs and plenty of parking. transit is available on the 28 bus to get you very easily. the part is ada -- park is ada accessible. it is also a natural lake. this is your chance to stroll around the lake and let the kids run free. it also has many birds to watch. it is a place to find and appreciate what you -- a wonderful breath of fresh air. come and experience in this park and enjoy the people, picnics, and sunshine. this is a lovely place to take a stroll with your loved ones. in the middle of pacific heights, on top of these hills, it offers a great square, a peaceful beauty, large trees and grass and greenery. it features tables and benches, a playground, restaurants, and tennis courts. there are plenty of areas for football and picnics. it is very much a couple's park. there are many activities you can experience together. stroll on the pathways, bring your dog, or just picnic at one of

we haven't been able to see action in congress and we need to really take leadership from our urban cities to stand up for our immigrant families. secondly, tonight president obama is going to be speaking about this topic and we really, as much good as he has been doing in our country we ask him to do more, to make sure that while republicans in congress have been unable to move have agenda forward, we are not victimizing innocent men, women, children and families as we move forward and this resolution is important to reflect our shared values of saying we are one city and the technical issues around citizenship do not impact that we are all human beings and none of us are illegal. >> thank you, supervisor campos. >> thank you. i want to take this opportunity to thank our brothers and sisters from local /# 87 for the leadership they have played in this item coming forward. i want to thank all of the immigrants and as a former undocumented immigrant myself, i'm especially proud to see the young people who came out to testify about their own experiences. it's not easy to do that and so i'm v

we just opened an urban city. >> we have about 400,000 people who rely on public transportation daily. >> about 10% of people are taking public transit to work each day. it equates to 1.5 million trips. it is a critical and crucial part of how people get around in the bay area. imagine the freeways without that level of transit service. >> like during the bart strike. >> and the fires and a little before that. transit is critical to moving people around. it is also critical when you think about increasing where we are going in our economy. people want close connections to each other. innovation and more. you need transit to move people in and out of the dense job centers. >> how is it working right now? >> it's working well. we have a very good transit system. but there are a couple of big problems. one is we need more money to really operate this system. and a lot of that is about reliability and speed. a lot -- it goes well and has great service but don't go quite fast enough. we need to grow the ridership. >> w

in 201080% of all americans were living in urban areas. cities across the united states are growing, some by double digit percentages in a ten-year period according to the latest census data. we're talking about cities and how to cope with rapid fire growth and the demands that come with it, and if you're looking to invest in things like light-rail or new inter modal transit links to your central business districts, the old days of flying in from washington are they over? >> they are. the fact is it's been dubbed the new normal. a lot of the new programs that are underfunded are the under the words "public," which has been given a bad name. public infrastructure, public education, public transit. the very basis of creating a community. as you lose funding from a state to hundred dollars main street programs and and transit program, you lose the ability to see this expansion occur. you have to become more creative in the way that you enseventh ie development so improvements can be made. i think what you'll start seeing with the federal government,

do you realize urban city mayors have a higher unemployment rate than in 1965 when the war on poverty i am such a fan to learn more about lyndon johnson he is one of the most underrated destructive forces in history. spending how much more could be spent with the war on poverty? lou: we will take that up with our panel. stay with us and you can get your copy of my new book "upheaval" available on line in a the bookstores nationwide. up next a brand-new poll says? are reemerging in the democratic party planned to stop the dignity politics during the bid turbid elections. biter pro [ me announcer ] this is the story of the dusty basement at 06 35th street the old dining table at 25th and hoffman. ...and the little room above the strip mall f roble avenue. ♪ this magic momt it is the story of where every great idea begins and of those o believed they had the power to do more. dell is honored to be part of some of the world'great stories. that began much the same w ours did. in a little dorm room -- 2713. ♪ this magic moment ♪ open to innovation. open to ambition. open to boldids. that's

as economic growth has been uneven, sporadic, many cities are healthier financially than their states, healthier than their federal government. an urban report card on this addition of "inside story" we begin with this background. >> thank you very much. >> some of america's major cities are waving good buy to their veteran mayors this year. the mayor of los angeles' leadership ended over the summer. new york city's mayor michael bloomberg is leaving, too, after more than a decade at city hall. >> new york city has never been stronger than it is today, and i think it's fair to say that our future has never been brighter. >> reporter: in the final speech of the term, he said his city today is drastically different from the one he took glover i think it's safe to say that it's clear that the golden age of the suburb is over, and it is being replaced by a new urban renaissance redefining the future. >> reporter: violence, governmental dysfunction, decay. in the 1970s new york lost more than 10% of its population. it was a center of a growing trend of cities around the country where middle class residents were fleeing fast to the suburbs.

was built on a digital platform to help businesses engage with employees and now is scaling to urban cities now is the coo, luke nicholson. i to have you on the program. carbon but it is difficult to get people excited. in this platform, you can actually see things as they motivate people. >> there is a lot of work going on around energy generation. lots of people are looking in a policy context. not nearly enough is going on on how we can use less. thatre exactly right energy efficiency, people know it is important but they don't find it exciting. the things people are excited about aren't about data. >> because it is not tangible. your apps make it tangible. ,f we look at downing street you can see exactly what the energy cost is, the energy use. make thisan do to even better and higher. >> that is right. that is all there. we launched at the department of energy and climate change. they saved about 10% in a few weeks as a result of having that. we are now beginning to work on a city scale as well. we are looking at how entire cities can engage in saving energy and becoming more efficient

do you realize urban city mayors have a higher unemployment rate than in 1965 when the war on povertyfan to learn more about lyndon johnson he is one of the most underrated destructive forces in history. spending how much more could be spent with the war on poverty? lou: we will take that up with our panel. stay with us and you can get your copy of my new book "upheaval" available on line in a the bookstores nationwide. up next a brand-new poll says? are reemerging in the democratic party planned to stop the dignity politics during the bid turbid elections. biter problem. baxter. there's nothing like being your own boss! and my customers are really liking your flat rate shipping. fedex one rate. really makes my life easier. maybe a promotion is in order. good news. i got a new title. and a raise? management couldn't make that happen. [ male announcer ] introducing fedex one rate. simple, flat rate shipping with the reliability of fedex. lou: back with our panel. do you say this president can get away with running against himself with income inequality? can that possibly be effective?

the ggnra revised the plan with dog owners and habitat even in an urban area. the city faces some of these same challenges in our own park system and balance recreation and conversation. while responsive to some of the concerns raised in the first round of outreach. many residents believe the ggnra plans go too far to those available to walker's. one of the concerns to the ggnra revised plan will impact resources. i ask them to fully the consider the totality and impact on the streets. they need to adequately address the concerns and concerns of our residents before finalizing the dog management plan.

city dwellers have to start voting their urban interest. never mind republican or democrat. the interest of cities is the interest of nations. if urban citizens both their interest the national government will be giving them back the resources. it is only because the american government is in the hands of a minority right now that the urban minority is not being well served. worldwide, the majority are in cities, and if we follow democratic practices, in time that means national governments will be controlled by urban majorities, and the national government will work with, not against, cities to get the job done. tavis: detroit, now that we know the bankruptcy is official, but there are other cities that are teetering on being detroit. armed big their cities and small cities that maybe the next detroit. chicago comes to mind immediately. give me some sense of what happened in detroit and how we keep other cities from going the same route. very important example. the bankruptcy of cities locally -- it is a spreading problem for every big city. a great productive city like l.a.

urban forest. we understand there are different efforts in the city that are promoting removal of some trees but in general we want to stabilize and grow the urban effort to have a better canopy for the national average. we want the city to reach a 25 percent canopy and that includes planting now a trees and necessitate trees on private properties. and those maps aren't great but this is one of the biggest recommendation. we want to have a citywide maintenance program. this will offer turn the status quo of turning the trees over to private property owners. the research show privately maintained trees don't do as well as publicly maintained trees. we would let dwp would take over the maintenance and it will help the burdens of sidewalk repairs and this is a good deal toro san francisco property owners. >> is, see the map on the left the green are those are the of you trees that dwp are maintaining and the gray are the majority of the trees and this voeflz maintaining the trees. of course, this plan is to pressure stable funding 0 sources to have that program. the fourth recommendation is 80 manager

phenomenon of crack during the nineteenth eighty's with reaganomics and the influx of drugs within urban city communities that's part of the reason why you see what we see right now within the african-american community and i don't think that there are people out there who are on welfare who for the majority of them enjoy being on welfare saying yes this is how i want to live my life for the rest of my life and i want my children to live this way to the majority of the people who i know and myself personally because my mom was on food stamps when we were growing up did not raise me or the other individuals around me to say yes while i want you to continue this legacy of being a welfare nicole you know she instilled in me the importance of education the importance of making sure you understand how the economy works and how politics works and to go ahead and live a blight better than where you came from and the majority of the people i know welfare do not want to be so both of you stepped into the black middle class out of families that were in poverty that's exactly right now is that is not pr

poverty, but the causes and characteristics look different from what you may find in the inner-city urban areas. even inner-city urban poverty looks different in miami and jacksonville or tampa or other parts of the state. all these have to be dealt with in creative and innovative ways. the frustrations you often hear is we have no flexibility. we are forced to provide services within the constraints of government mandates and government requirements that you not allow us to tailor our programs to the individual, to the locality we are trying to serve. hence some of the problems. the other complaint you get is the extraordinary amount of paperwork involved every single year in accessing these funds in these programs. that is problematic as well. my biggest concern i have learned from is that we have antipoverty programs that help us to alleviate the pain of poverty, but they do not do nearly enough to help people overcome the causes of it, the things that are keeping them from getting ahead. unless we address the structural causes of poverty, we are never going to solve it and are never g

when the property to the north of my house was converted the city's urban design policies had the open space that was designed. it's a marvelous interior block space. in the center portion that came out of the plans development the result is a dense landscaping that contributes to the birds habitat as well as the property owners. i was disappointed that the dw p acknowledged my concerns they don't address my concerns nor have they corrected the damage to the pedestrian active sidewalk. prior to requesting a permit i talked to my neighborhood and were all open to the replacement. there was letters and e-mails submitted during this request and appellant process objecting to my request by people who don't live on the street. one of the letters was actually a multiple from someone around on stockton named rita who stated that the issue concerned several of her neighborhood who haven't had the opportunity to comment. i'm not aware of any such neighborhood. i he was the approached by one of my neighborhood she unsuccessful tried to rally the neighborhood. i attempted to contact her and have

poverty, but the causes and characteristics look different from what you may find in the inner-city urban areas. even inner-city urban poverty looks different in miami and jacksonville or tampa or other parts of the state. all these have to be dealt with in creative and innovative ways. the frustrations you often hear is we have no flexibility. we are forced to provide services within the constraints of government mandates and government requirements that you not allow us to tailor our programs to the individual, to the locality we are trying to serve. hence some of the problems. the other complaint you get is the extraordinary amount of paperwork involved every single year in accessing these funds in these programs. that is problematic as well. my biggest concern i have learned from is that we have antipoverty programs that help us to alleviate the pain of poverty, but they do not do nearly enough to help people overcome the causes of it, the things that are keeping them from getting ahead. unless we address the structural causes of poverty, we are never going to solve it and are never g

city departments. the strength of our success in boston, his designation was the urban mechanic for a great city. it's been based upon the fact that there is connectivity between all of the various branches of government. so i know that arresting people is not going lower the crime rate. we've arrested fewer and fewer people every year for the last seven years. but i do know that working with the inspectional services department, with the alcohol beverage control department, the regulatory agencies in city government have a direct effect on crime and reduce crime hot spots immediately. so we've used that sort of holistic approach for a long time in boston. me for the last seven years. it is what has led to our success. it's only through cooperation and coordination in the full direction of the mayor. the mayor plays an enormous role in making sure the people work together. when that happens, it can be extremely powerful. >> in my view, there is no more innovative mayor or leader in this country than michael bloomberg. he's done phenomenal things here. the mayor says and has said many times that t

the ggnra revised the plan with dog owners and habitat even in an urban area. the city faces some of these same challenges in our own park system and balance recreation and conversation. while responsive to some of the concerns raised in the first round of outreach. many residents believe the ggnra plans go too far to those available to walker's. one of the concerns to the ggnra revised plan will impact resources. i ask them to fully the consider the totality and impact on the streets. they need to adequately address the concerns and concerns of our residents before finalizing the dog management plan. i'm confident the ggnra will work with residents before moving any plan forward. they have been partners with the city since the recreation area was created in 19726789 . i have great respect for director jean and the wonderful acts they have entrusted to protect. most recently the partnership with the 34th america's cup which drew millions of people to the water front to see the teams. all while people enjoyed the beautiful water front open space. i asked the ggnra while

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there are hotels, very busy urban city streets in tel aviv. it's not that it's not protected. it's got plenty of protection, but that it's difficult to protect. this is an embassy that is not in an area set back away from population. people go by it all day long. so there's lots of protection, but it is vulnerable simply from the standpoint of where it is located in a very busy part of tel aviv, wolf. >> so how concerned are u.s. officials about this threat that's just been reported? >> reporter: well, look, wolf, what u.s. intelligence has to do now is sit down with the israelis and figure out exactly what has happened here. if, if, in fact, ayman al zawahiri is directly behind this, this is extremely significant. it suggests that he still has a recruiting capability, financing, training, organization, an ability to communicate across wide areas fundamentally a network. and that is very scary, very dangerous, because they have long believed that while he may inspire a lot of jihadis out there he's fairly isolated without the ability to directly communicate on a regular basis.

city planning issues. what happened in 1997, 1998, 19 99, these were urban companies, companies, and they were not profitableses, and now we are talking about yahoo! and google and big profitable businesses that are ferrying city workers to suburban sites, and that is not what was going on before. there is this notion that people who want to live in the city are able to, and there are different kinds of companies affecting change in the city, so i think to his point, this could be a much more herman and thing because they are successful, permit businesses, where the workers are choosing to live in the city and not in suburbia. >> silicon valley is moving north. these young folk want to be in a dense, urban environment and want all of the amenities, and they are willing to sacrifice a commute. i want to maintain these campuses, but increasingly, folks are saying, can't you open up a satellite office in san francisco? >> and we are seeing companies like twitter and salesforce taking up huge, corporate office space, and that is not making people happy either. the day twitter went public, there was a huge road t

today i'm bringing before you the adoption of national city transportation urban street design guide. the urban street design guide was put together by 26 planners, engineers, urban designers, architects from 16 different cities across the u.s. it is certainly a reflection of the design principles that we already bring into our work. it is a natural evolution of the better streets plan. and the same way that the better streets plan really led the way to the way we approach the design of the public realm, the urban street design guide takes those ideals and puts them -- [speaker not understood]. in many ways the urban street design guide is not possible without the better streets plan. a few things, a few highlights from the guide that i want to draw your attention to. first, its emphasis on interim treatments. there is a page that highlights san francisco's park program, real ill our pioneering work in this area. and the evolution is that we have payment to park. hopefully soon we'll have payment to safety. where we are bringing interim, quick solutions before you for pedestrian and b

the bulk of poor people in the country lived in urban areas, big cities or in rural communities. and since that time, we have seen a real shift. >> according to newbone the number of people living in suburbs has grown by 65%. for example, poverty is up by almost 16% in the suburbs of pittsburgh. up more than 27% in the suburbs of providence. up nearly 79% outside seattle. and in the suburbs of austin, texas, the number of poor has swelled almost 143%. more poor people live in america's suburbs than in cities or rural areas. the main explanation is simply demographics. many more americans have moved to suburbs in recent years. and that growth included low income residents and new immigrants. other factors -- suburbs are still recovering from the foreclosure and financial crises. federal programs for the poor were mostly designed back in the '60s with rural or urban communities in mind. and when hard times came to the suburbs, many were not prepared. >> often, suburban communities have not built up the same level of infrastructure and safety net support that cities have been buildi

city? >> clearly we think urban agriculture has great potential.s access to huge amounts of land. if we're able to produce even a small percentage of the food which is consumed in detroit and circulate the revenues from that food within our community, then we're able to create a more vibrant, healthy, economically strong community. so we think it has tremendous potential. ♪ >> who will live in the detroit of the future? there's no question, is there, that detroit will come back? in one form or another, a city this magnificent, this storied, this american -- cannot, will not ever disappear into the weeds. there are too few places this beautiful for it to be allowed to crumble like ankor or rome. someone will live in a smaller, tighter, no doubt hipper, much contracted, new detroit. but who will that be? will it be the people who stuck it out here? who fought block by block to keep their city from burning? who struggle to defend their homes, keep up appearances, as all around them their neighborhoods emptied? what will detroit look like in 20 years?