Charlie Rose

vongleichent  04/06/2013 10:16 AM Report

I be worried to have a house right on the coast. Unless you got insurance.

NeilMacCallister  03/07/2013 09:40 AM Report

I just need a better "freeway", John.

I and several million other Americans sit in miles-long traffic jams for 2 or 3 hours EVERY DAY !!

Don't you just HATE it ???

While it can sometimes take 4 hours to drive from south to north Los Angeles. In the East Bay, it can take over 2 hours to drive 40 miles.

But our CA governor wants to spend thousands of billions bringing "high-speed trains" to our farmers in the Central Valley.

Or throwing a million dollar "happy party" for a management crew which just brought in a Bay Bridge at 3 times its original cost estimate.

I don't know, can government do ANYTHING right, John???

Gelles  03/05/2013 09:51 AM Report

Albany and SUNY Albany intend to be a center for Nanotechnology.

NCY and NYU intend to be a center of urban rationalization and the financial power to pay for it.

NYU will face up to the "arithmetic" arguments in favor of anachronism in monetary systems and failure in every place where macroeconomics and micro-finance prevention of unemployment and poverty are ignored.

And illustration of what NYU will have to face is the following current dispute over cutting spending or cutting the middle class to shreds.

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WHAT DISPUTE? -- this one:

..... Why Cut Spending Now For Fear Future Medical Costs Will Not Be Affordable ?

The view that current trends in the cost of Medicare, Medicaid and even Social Security are arithmetically headed for levels so high we will not be able to provide the next and future generations with these or similar entitlements, fills the news on every network--left, right and center.

This view is demonstrably ignorant, dangerous and accepted by the voters who, ignorant of the facts, are being cheated by academia, government and the media.

FACTS:

1. At the moment we need jobs and entitlements.

2. At the moment there is a huge jobs and middle class income deficit compared to what they would be if we had full employment, first class infrastructure, green energy in great abundance, learner-friendly education and on the job training in engineering, math, science, semantics and technology and its history.

3. The day before we are in immanent danger of shutting down entitlements and passing out guns so people can kill enough of each other to end the excess number of takers and inadequate supply of over-achievers, we will have to carry out the civil war or decide to reform our culture.

4. If we reform our culture we will rapidly achieve the rewards that were headed our way when FDR died and America and Russia moved from wartime allies to nations held together by FEAR of mutually assured destruction if we lost our cool.

If this reminds you of Scarborough vs. Krugman, it should!

Max83  03/05/2013 03:45 AM Report

Great documentary on this topic is ''Urbanized'' featuring also Amanda Burden:

Video Link to the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHWwxBEfikw

'' Uploaded on Sep 20, 2011

A documentary about the design of cities, which looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design and features some of the world's foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders, and thinkers.''

REMant  03/04/2013 11:42 AM Report

This is I suppose part of the attempt to save NYC's flagging economy. The new institute is supposed to unite several present NYU programs, and aim at the creation of an information technology center to aid the city in its quest to become Silicon Valley East and replace losses in its financial and other sectors.

There are already plenty of schools which teach city planning and study urban issues. And the method proposed has been used many times before, most noticeably to me, by Indiana Univ, with its School of Public and Environmental Affairs, now ranked second in the nation, I believe, and School of Informatics.

However, the idea that solution to NYC's problems is to create a yuppie paradise seems to me misguided, if, however, it will perhaps entice people with money back to displace the ghettos created when they fled to the 'burbs. I can't think an economy is ever viable without more equality than we'd likely see, and urbanization has always ended up displacing its workers, which is a major reason why we saw the growth of suburbs in the first place. In NYC it caused the building of the subway system. And it has prompted the continual demand for more and wider roadways.

I think dispersing corporate doings a far better and economical idea, but it seems ppl just don't trust each other enough to just do their jobs and feel they have to be close to the levers of power. I see no reason to subsidize that.

Actually I think the emergence of cities has always meant not the increase of opportunity, but its decrease, and the growth of slums, particularly where welfare is available. They are connected with the growth of trade, which, however, bountiful it may be, is an indication of the decline in self-sufficiency.