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Come, giving your company the resources and stability to thrive. Mufg we build relationships that build the world. And now, bbc world news america. This is bbc world news america. Reporting from washington, i am laura trevelyan. War, south syria, where the fighting has caused millions to flee, there is little sign of political solution. That looks further away than ever. The dynamic of war has taken over in syria. Laura wildfires burn out of control in california. Hundreds of homes have been destroyed and thousands of residents forced to evacuate could could robot take your job . Our week on Intelligent Machines kicks off with a look at how replaceable you might be. Welcome to our viewers on Public Television in america and also around the globe. With the war in syria now in its fifth year, the Mass Movement of people out of the country continues good more than half the population are estimated to have fled their homes. 4 million are seeking refuge in neighboring countries. As we repor
Come, giving your company the resources and stability to thrive. Mufg we build relationships that build the world. And now, bbc world news america. This is bbc world news america. Reporting from washington, i am laura trevelyan. War, south syria, where the fighting has caused millions to flee, there is little sign of political solution. That looks further away than ever. The dynamic of war has taken over in syria. Laura wildfires burn out of control in california. Hundreds of homes have been destroyed and thousands of residents forced to evacuate could could robot take your job . Our week on Intelligent Machines kicks off with a look at how replaceable you might be. Welcome to our viewers on Public Television in america and also around the globe. With the war in syria now in its fifth year, the Mass Movement of people out of the country continues good more than half the population are estimated to have fled their homes. 4 million are seeking refuge in neighboring countries. As we repor
Monday night at 8 00 p. M. Et on cspan2. This week on lectures in history, Carlton Basmajian talks about the northwest ordinance which was an act of congress to organize and governed the newly acquired territory from the ohio river to the mississippi. He describes the 18th Century National planning effort which divided the territory into a grid pattern, and proposed a Transportation Network of roads and canals. He argues this process of development was also applied to the Louisiana Purchase. This class is 50 minutes. He makes a specific argument about how the United States has been intensively planned. This is the theme we have been building. He makes a argument about the intensity of the planning, particularly at the national scale. That is something i will talk about today, specifically, to bring us along this argument. As a rehash of what we talked about, settlement cities and migration cities, referencing Lewis Mumford from last week, we are saying there is a group of settlement ci
He makes a specific argument about how the United States has been intensively planned. This is the theme we have been building. He makes a argument about the intensity of the planning, particularly at the national scale. That is something i will talk about today, specifically, to bring us along this argument. As a rehash of what we talked settlement cities and migration cities, referencing Lewis Mumford from last week, we are saying there is a group of settlement cities along the eastern seaboard a philadelphia, other cities like new york and boston. Then, there are migration cities. We talked about pittsburgh and st. Louis. Were two groups of cities some of the earliest planned communities, european communities in the u. S. , and how important they were to the process of planning. Also, how they reflected each other. Grid and howut the it influenced cities, subsequently. Today, we will talk about land allocation. We are going to talk about canals and roads. We are going to talk about