So if we think about this, which is the first one of the first references to parkways in the United States. Olmstead and vox based their idea off paris. In this early conception of the parkway, they are thinking about a couple of rather simple ideas. First it is a wider than average street. Second, parkways in the early conception were usually treelined. Weve talked a little bit about boulevards and essentially a parkway in the beginning was a wide street with trees indistinguishable from the term boulevard. They are pretty much identical. The most significant difference is the name, which provided a sense of the utility of the parkway as linking a park to park. Norman newton in your text says the parkway provides the psychological carryover of the restful influence of one large park area into its echo in another with little or no interruption along the way. Right . So there is this idea of park. It is connected seamlessly with a parkway. Parkways became to be a little bit more serious
Alex you are in howard beach in front of the Police Command post, as they search for evidence and clues to track down a killer of a jogger who was murdered last week. What he got question marks speemacs day six of the investigation. Who killed carino petrone oh . Nypd is still trying to find out. No suspect announced as of right now. If you remember Katrina Karina was the jogger who went missing in these high brush lands behind me. Those in the neighborhood of howard beach and found a few hours later, dad, strangle. Please are try to solve her murder. On sunday her family spoke out and brought forth two different ideas of justice. Blessed with a said. Myself and my they said. Myself and my family oh everything to the nypd. It can only ever hope to bring justice to my daughter karina through them in their hard work. Philippa toronto, talking about earthly justice. Talking about the doronto, talkg about earthly justice. Talking about the dedicated cop and his prayer that they find what i
Associate with Landscape Architecture but it wasnt always so. In fact, the modern freeway that you guys drive every day has its roots in Landscape Architecture in the park planning that weve been talking about this semester. Ill start with a little bit of review and this familiar landscape which everyone should, i hope, recognize, which of course is Prospect Park. So we look at the development of central park. Then we look at Prospect Park, which is olmsteds next great park in the late 1860s. They designed roads associated with this park. These were intended to be broad treelined streets spinning off the edges of the park in here. There are originally supposed to be four. Two are actually built eastern and Ocean Parkway. And here is a view of Ocean Parkway from 1894. So if we think about this, which is the first one of the first references to parkways in the United States. Olmstead and vox based their idea off of fauch avenue in paris. So if youre thinking of alfond and housmans work e
Began writing my book, the teacher wars about the history of teaching. Now at that moment i felt as a longtime Education Teacher there was something not quite right. Teaching had become definitely the most controversial profession discussed in our public life. In the media, and i have a member of the media, but veteran teachers were generally portrayed as undereducated, as incompetents and insufficiently committed to closing the achievement gap. Now research showed then and still today that there are really big and Serious Problems with American Public schools, such as a curriculum thats not up to snuff with our international peers, too much rote teaching, too many work sheathes, rote learning and the segregation of our low income children of color in separate classrooms and separate schools. These are giant moral and political shortcomings and yet, back in 2011 when i began writing my book, i noticed that the predominant policy response to these issues was very narrow. The weaken teac
Wel veoullhereummoe anlsor yr. Lu 40doarba. Soo li oca n. T t t pt. Etio. A sword scare. A man with a weapon inside the fifth avenue apple store with customers dangerously close. Plus, a woman stabbed to death in the bronx and a baby girl born moments after the blood shed. And bundle up. Colder weather and another round of rain, coming your way this weekend. Good evening, everyone. Im maurice dubois. And im christine johnson. We begin with the wild scene in the middle of a fifth avenue apple store. Matt cozaar has the latest on the sword scare and the new video. Matt . Reporter when shoppers saw a man wield be a Samurai Sword inside the apple store, some thought it was performance art. But when he started swinging the saber at customers, like he had a bomb, everyone went running for cover. This cell phone video could be straight from a martial arts movie, but its the apple store on fifth avenue. A crazed man with a Samurai Sword brought the packed store friday. In the video, you see po