Urban Geography/SF

Map

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Russian hill

Lombard street

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Pacific Heights

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  • Billionaries row
  • Founder of o

South of Market

Prelude

  • In 2024 this was the most expensive neighborhood per square foot in the united states
  • $5,415 per square foot

Businesses

  • Many major software and technology companies have headquarters and offices here, including Ustream,[33] Planet Labs,[34] Foursquare,[35] Cloudflare,[36][37] Wikia,[citation needed] Wired, GitHub, Pinterest,[38] CBS Interactive,[39] LinkedIn, Trulia, Dropbox,[40] IGN, Salesforce,[41] BitTorrent Inc., Yelp,[42] Zynga,[43] Airbnb,[44] Uber,[45] Advent Software,[46][47] Pac-12 Networks,[48] and Yeti

Airbnb Headquarters

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Inside Airbnb headquarters

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Salesforce tower

  • Tallest building in SF

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Downtown

Transamerica building

  • The CEO of transamerica wanted more light onto that street, and the

city planners wanted more vantage points, so they reconciled with that shape

  • They had to put some extra work to make sure that the windows were not

inclined

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Haldie building

  • Though credited as the first American building to feature glass curtain walls
  • A lot of sky scrapers is a progeny of this idea

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Mission bay

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Mission district

Mission dolores park

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Tenderloin

The area has a reputation for crime and has among the highest levels of homelessness and crime in the city. It is the center of the fentanyl crisis in San Francisco.

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Twin Peaks

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Telegraph hill

Coit Tower

  • art deco

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Alamo Square

Painted ladies

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Outer Sunset

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Presidio

Prelude

  • The Presidio has served as a military reservation from its establishment in 1776 as Spain's northern-most outpost of colonial power in the New World. It was one of the longest-garrisoned posts in the country and the oldest installation in the American West

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Written by Davi Cavalcanti Sena who lives and works in Vancouver building useless things