birds can become confused by glass in the urban environment. they have worked to make changes to reduce bird mortality. in 2008, the san francisco planning commission, animal control, and welfare commission, department of the agreement and board of supervisors supported the voluntary situation. this made san francisco the west coast leader. the program has since spread to over 25 cities. while lights out for boards has been positive, it needs to expand. -- lights out for birds. in 2009, golden gate audubon participated as part of the mayor's task force on urban wind. they call for property owners to do monitoring and to share the results. documented, biological monitoring information from new wind technology is needed to inform the public as the demand for alternative forms of energy grows. this has involved in two birds in flight. -- this has involved to include birds in flight. birds do not recognize glass as a solid object to be avoided. they fly into glass avoiding a predator, defending territory, or when attempting to reach vegetation refl

the name of the movie is "urbanized." it is a phenomenal movie about cities worldwide talking about urban issues and how people in 40 cities across the world are attacking the broadest range of issues. they're talking about it every thursday, how the rest of the world addresses these issues is inspiring. i hope the entire planning department and anybody interested in city and suburbanism -- and urbanism. i encourage everybody to see this movie. it's mine glowingly wonderful and i cannot speak more glowingly about the experience of having seen it last night. commissioner antonini: one subject we frequently talk about is transportation, which is where much of what are planning revolves around. i came upon a buck, a pictorial book with a text on the muni and there are very many interesting things in that book. it was one of the nation's first man to play on transportation systems. most of the others were private until 1913. they did some really marvelous things, mostly by building tunnels in places like stockton street, 26,

urban dictionary a lot of fun and actually if you look at my name as a commission there's as well but no federal agents also have to use a rejection area and here's something that comes from their web site next time. if you really want is going to tell you on our. blog there is a. guy you. yeah you know we don't want that to happen so that's why you go to urban dictionary but that's just i guess for normal be able to want to go on the street be cool but federal agents actually had to use it to figure out what a man named justin campbell was talking about when he wrote on his facebook page and said that one in there got my pistol cause confiscated i got plenty of other guns and i want to merck that blank blank blank so they had to look up what work means which actually means physically beating someone so severely as to cause their death but after that they've got to arrest him on felony charges and you know i'm honestly really concerned about the story you saw the picture i think i looks like a seriously upstanding citizen and i don't think urban dictionary is a reliable source but if

if you're walking around in an urban area, you're probably stepping on a pipe. man: our grandparents paid for, and put in for the first time, these large distribution systems. woman: and in many cases, it's not been touched since. man: we're at a critical turning point. much of that infrastructure is wearing out. narrator: our water infrastructure is made up of complex, underground systems that function continuously. these 10 locations take a look at the history, design, and challenges of our water infrastructure systems. each one represents a small part of what's at stake on a national scale. but understanding the challenges starts with understanding the value of the three basic systems. generations of americans have never experienced living without a constant, unlimited supply of water delivered straight to the tap, or without their waste flushed immediately away. i think people often forget -- because, you know, water utilities have made it very convenient for people to get water -- how important this is. man: in terms of water supply, wastewater, stormwater

for most people, especially in urban areas, powwows are places to go to reconnect. powwows are places you go to see people you haven't seen in a long time and to make new friends, new connections, nothing different than what's going on here, nothing difrplt than what was going on at the old festival at ft. mason. with that, i wanted to play also for you a little bit of cedar flute. if you've heard cedar flute you've heard youngblood and cedar flute has become emblematic of american indian in the singular, american indian culture. i wanted to play it for you to give you an example of what might be considered traditional style because after this i'd lake to bring up two guests and play two arrangements that were created especially for this festival that bring in both the irish american and the urban indian. so this is a cedar flute song for you. (playing flute) so now that you have a little bit of powwow and a little bit of cedar flute in your ears, i would like to invite two guests up to perform for you, two arrangements which i made especially for today. first, rita

over 80% of its population lives in urban areas. tokyo is japan's largest city. as the capital, it is the focus of most legal, political, and economic activities in the nation. most large corporations have their headquarters here. everything tends to concentrate in tokyo. 32 million people, or one out of every four japanese live within a 30-mile radius. while tokyo casts a large shadow, it covers only three percent of the total land mass of japan. land prices here have skyrocketed. a booming economy in the 1980s and early 1990s saw profits go into real estate speculation, contributing to a bubble of inflated values. affordable housing was in short supply. more and more people began moving out to the suburbs to fulfill their dream of owning a home. by the mid-90s, japan hit an economic slump and the asian economic crisis of 1997 hit. the bubble burst and land prices began to decline, but not by much. housing prices in tokyo are falling, but they're still at very high levels compared to the u.s. the average cost of housing in the greater tokyo metropolitan area is

schombert: the urban impacts on that watershed have been enormous. flooding flows, combined sewer overflows, gave it the nickname of "stink creek" for many, many years. hecht: before the stream restoration, when you have a rain event, the stream would just be barreling, just filled with tons and tons of water, and the water would move very quickly, eroding the stream banks further. narrator: the rushing water ran all the combined sewage straight into the monongahela river, which is a main supplier of drinking water for the region. hecht: what has happened because of the restoration is the water overflows its banks, it floods into these nice flood plains with native plants. and then slowly the water percolates back down into the stream. narrator: this allows the land to naturally filter and clean the sewer overflows before they enter the river. the restoration included extensive environmental changes to improve the stream and infrastructure changes to reduce the csos into the watershed. hecht: when i first started talking with people about stream rest

one hundred years of america to be urbanized this world be urbanized in less than twenty five years or thirty years and that is amazing we talked about environment we talked about how the environment is economic sense environment of the land the air in the water which is really important for city we talked about traffic we talked about economic development housing you talked about the emergency police and fire and other things and mayors get together we talk about best practices what works and what doesn't work and the mayors are closest to the people and so they have to do they have to have a lot of passion and you can't solve everything well at least a striving to solve it. says richard daley veteran u.s. politician and longest serving mayor of chicago retired just in the spotlight will be back shortly ride out the great south don't go away stay where you want. i got out of the military the night you sixty six i got over because the things i saw the things i was doing and this is the reason sept were given for doing a job as a personal protest. during the vietnam war amazing war m

making urban dwellers think about their environment and a new way. -- in a new way. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. the man described as al qaeda's most serious threat to the west has been killed in yemen. he inspired terror plot on both sides of the atlantic including one to blow up a plane bound for detroit at christmas 2009. according to officials, he was killed today when his convoy was attacked by an american drone. >> eloquent, inspirational, and effective. he got his followers to attack the west. now he is killed along with his companions in a u.s. air strike in yemen hailed by washington. >> they will find no safe haven anywhere in the world. working with yemen and our other allies and partners, we will be determined, deliberate, relentless, resolute in our commitment to destroy terrorist networks that aimed to kill americans. >> the influence reached far beyond the villages where he was hiding. he directly inspired others to attack western targets. like the man that killed 13 of his fellow soldiers at fort hood. the attack on t

in new york, the lab has arrived. >> discussion of ideas of the challenges of urban living. to understand how city's work. >> it sits on the small parcel of what was rat infested land. it will explore new technology, offering possible solutions, and to air their concerns. >> there is a bad drug epidemic and that makes me nervous. >> i get around new york -- there is a bedbug epidemic and that makes me nervous. >> i rely on public transportation. >> what does it do in practical terms? >> by moving the different tokens on a chessboard, the public will be able to answer some interesting questions about how cities work. there are some that pertain to transportation. by getting asked questions about how he would make decisions, participants are shaping their own city. >> after spending 10 weeks in new york, it will close up shop and move on to berlin and then mumbai. it is an urban experience -- experiment with global designs. >> there are accessibility issues. what we have seen in new york is to make people more vocal, have them speak up about their life in the city. >> organize

area, the immediately dense urban area. >> commissioner miguel? commissioner miguel: the other thing to add to this although we are using the term cell phone antennas is these are data transmission antennas and if getting that massive data transmission is actually starting to surplant the cell phone transmission themselves and it is the movement of that electronic data that is involved and not just the cell phone. mr. sanchez, you can start. >> thank you very much. good afternoon, diego sanchez with the planning department staff. before you is a request for conditional use authorization and with the associated equipment cabinet as part of the wireless transmission network operated by at&t with an s.l.r. service operating license. the project is at 234 ninth street and is a three-story commercial structure. the project complies with all requirement of planning code and is consistent with the 1996 wireless facility citing guidelines and the proposed location is the preferred site for wireless transmission facilities with the location preference numb

this is a grant provided by housing and urban development. given the scope, the constellation the partners, the grant is given to the lead developer with national expertise in rebuilding housing communities in a joint partnership with the housing authority and the school district as well as the mayor's office of housing and redevelopment. the school's strategy and plan, in many ways, it is about breaking the cycle of poverty for families who have lived in public housing for too long. creating opportunity for the young people. we have the opportunity to look at the schools. the majority of the people think about the strategy for strengthening the community and thinking about the schools. the schools around griffith are george washington carver, malcolm x, a hidden gem, and double rock. the willie brown school was closed. it is proposed to be reopened when the bill passes. then the partner high-school is marshall, where the majority of kids tend to go. many kids go to a range of schools. these are partner schools. i want to talk for just a seco

they are coming to attend class when there is a lot to process on a small camp for it is away from urban areas one they're gonna hold a rally today for students and teachers trying to deal and process what has happened in all student was a sexually assaulted by two male acquaintances in her dorm room another as the mouse to move was raped by someone she knows and he has no later arrested. the second rate was in a dorm when it is a small campus out in the middle of nowhere. i was wondering if it was a coed dorm >> i will find out which as a representative pulled up a it is a catholic school so it could be traditional >> stories we're following according to the urban mobility report we are the seven the most congested on the list they say unemployment dropped dobbs so there are less people driving to work washington d.c. is the worst wh. why >> this is where michele lee went to school they announced a $25,000 endowment in her name one of her sorority sister described her as respectful and ambitious >> she was polite she always said please and thank you and was a respectful to everyone. mic

so the need is largely urban. within the urban setting, as we have seen, using the bay area as a microcosm for national policy challenges, the real debate is how we continue to grow in a more sustainable way. we know that sprawl and suburban life as we knew it for three generations it is no longer really an option 100%, so we have to start finding ways to incorporate options to single automobile driving and so on. were that rhetorical battle is going to land is very hard to imagine, but one thing i can predict to you is we're not likely to see a bill probably until after the presidential election. a contains some of the ideological items that it will be hard to get to a consensus. i would also want to venture that if we do not see a rebirth -- a reauthorization bill until then, that might not be the worst thing in the world. if you see one, is likely to contain less money or money at lower levels than what we've seen, even up to the present. we do not necessarily want to have a long and damaging debate about what

we work with a great structure in urban areas to connect all of the destinations. i will advise you to do something here and there. back to them. keep in mind were the cyclist comes from and where they want to go to. look for connections. and make shortcuts for cyclists. it was very handy. and you don't have to wait for the traffic lights. working on the system of bicycle highways, you have priorities for the rural area between urban areas. it moves wide and you can cycle as fast. a bicycle can go very fast. in needs to be social safe as well. that is sometimes difficult. for the bicycle street, some of you might have seen in as part of the cycle route. the cargo in the streets with two types. you can see them on the pictures, the car in the middle had the the car on the side. they work pretty well. they are introduced more and more all over the country. when we separate bicycles from cars, we prefer parking on the left side. you don't have the chance of enduring so much. for intersections, i have seen the traffic circle here and they start shouting, round about. t

toward rural areas or can get our power base is really urban.i mean, do you see a any way of overcoming that and is that a proper analysis of one of our problems for achieving stronger political? and thank you, bill. >> guest: certainly going back to the historic civil rights movement, it was never just a black movement. i mean, the kids who were killed in the mississippi freedom summer, two of them are white. so it was never just an issue of being a curly black movement. there were always virtually every level i was in, there was a movement of people who just thought there was something outlandish, crazy, horrible about trying to build a society of racial discrimination and racial isolationism. so i totally am graceful, there was no just blacks fighting for racial justice in this country. the future in terms of civil rights i think is increasingly going to be one of coalition. it's going to be one of an expanded definition, or at least a different definition of what it is weaning myself rights, whose rights we are fighting to protect. some of t

another feature of industrialization is the large movement of population to urban areas. [montanari] we can list various problems. for instance, we can list the housing problem, the difficulties of finding housing, of moving in these areas. the necessity of earning more in order to survive in these cities require to the wives in the families also to be employed and then less time to be devoted to the family. susanne carella sigra lives in rome with her husband alessio and her son orso maria. [translator] i work because i was brought up to do so. my mother always taught me that independence is a fundamental, even for a woman, so when i finished studying, i started to work immediately. [speaking italian] women now do lots of things. they take responsibility for a lot of things, always according to the family problems that they may have. undoubtedly, women without children get around more easily and get involved in more things. also, they have more time available, and therefore they can produce more and commit themselves to more-- both to their own job and to their different

if you look at washington, d.c., we were spending more money per pupil than almost any urban jurisdiction in the country, and our results were at the bottom. what we are talking about as an advocacy organization is using money in a different way, not just funneling it into the school systems. if you look at the education agenda over the last three decades in this country, it has largely been driven by special interest groups. you have textbook manufacturers, teachers' unions, testing companies. these are powerful groups that have a tremendous amount of influence. so the problem is that when you in education have all these interest groups out there, but there is no national, organized interest groups with the same half as the teachers' union, advocating on behalf of kids, you end up with laws, policies, and regulations that are skewed towards, for example, the teachers' unions, because they have millions of dollars and millions of people. the use those effectively on the political front. when you look at the two national teachers' unions, they have a budget of over $2 billion that on polit

education, urban planning, disaster relief. needless to say, we are ambitious than we think we can affect the course of things. we hope to in this century. >> i wanted to dig a bit more into that. i would love it if you could maybe help contrast the radical levels of participation and involvement that you see at burning man with the current status of san francisco. for a city that has so many creative and imaginative folks, perhaps there could be more to be done on the civic involvement front here. >> we formed a relationship with mayor newsom a while back. i met him at his office and presented to him -- major artistic genre at black rock. and this is portable monumentality. we told him there are great portable monument works of art all around the bay area. not so much in san francisco, but certainly in oakland. in the east bay. there are some facilities left in the city. being an acute politician, he soon realized what that meant. it was the answer to a political problem. if you put a piece of art in a neighborhood, community

to landscape programs with the urban farmers' support and authorize the general manager to execute this amendment to extend the duration of the agreement with no change to the value of the agreement. for the selection and award earthquake safety and emergency response find and planning support services, to a joint venture to assist with planning alternatives of the pipelines, tulsa, and related features. to authorize the professional services agreement. to approve the amendment no. 12 a grant funded agreement. water quality services for demonstration programs to complete additional water quality services associated with graf reporting requirements and other related tasks. to authorize the general manager to execute the amendment increasing the amendment with no change of the duration of the agreement. to approve the capital improvement program contract and a microwave upgrade to the lowest qualified bidder to install four new microwave sites to provide improved communication with safety and power line protection, authorizing the general manager to submit applications and the right of wa

i do graduate classes that relate to african-american history, often urban focus and urban context. this year and preparing to put together a class on approaching american culture from the standpoint of its industrial structures. so how to market began to the copyright act of 1909 to the reemergence of new platforms of disseminating of the 70s and 80s. how does it move

focus n an urban context. and this year i'm preparing to put together a class on approaching american popular culture from the standpoint of its industrial structures. so how do markets begin to emerge in relation to the music industry from the copyright act of 1909 to the reemergence of new platforms of disseminating music in the '70s and '80s. how does the movie industry move from its consolidation within the studio system to its disintegration and reconditioning around different finance structures and so on and so forth. so it's really, it's a wonderful, wonderful opportunity and a great treat to be able to teach to these fine students in this university. >> and we've been talking with professor adam green of the university of chicago. here's his book, "selling the race: culture, community and black chicago 1940 to 1955." >> visit booktv.org to watch any of the programs you see here online. type the author or book title in the search bar on the upper left side of the page and click search. you can also shar