San Francisco
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The SF Bay Area. Here we see San Francisco and Oakland. The pollution from the Port of Oakland is clearly visible. I've veered a little bit from absolute reality, but I think I've done a good job of creating a realistic SF.
Downtown San Francisco. Every day, thousands of people take the BART here to come to work. Here we see the Bank of America Tower and the Transamerica Pyramid, symbols of the skyline.
The SOMA district of San Francisco. Home to the SF Giants and UCSF's Mission Bay Campus, as well as numerous tech startups.
The gritty industrial Mission Bay district resembles the SOMA of yesteryear, though there are talks of cleaning it up and bringing in more high-tech jobs.
Alcatraz Island. The island was returned to the Native Americans, who have turned it into an environmental education center.
The Western Addition has historically been the heart and soul of San Francisco's African-American community. The district is rapidly gentrifying and while people are fixing up previously run-down Victorians, black people are being pushed out of the nieghborhood, or into its vast tracts of public housing.
The Palace of Fine Arts in the Marina District.
And here we have the good ol' Golden Gate Bridge
Little Beirut in the Richmond District. The neighborhood has seen some tensions as the Shiite Muslim and Maronite Christian communities rub shoulders and their respective places of worship nearly overlap eachother, rekindling old memories of the Civil war from which they fled.
Historic Victorian housing in the Mission District, home to SF's Latino community and it's hipsters. Like most of the city, it is rapidly gentrifying, and many of its residents are moving to Oakland.
The tony Seacliff neighborhood is home to some of the City's most notable residents. Robin Williams has a home here.
Golden Gate Park. Let's play ball!
Gritty Little Tonga in the southwest part of the City is home to working-class Pacific Islanders who found the neighborhood's worker bungalows to remind them of home. SF has one of the largest Pacific Islander populations in the mainland USA.
The Mount Sutro radio tower in the Twin Peaks neighborhood can be seen from anywhere in the City and is used by locals as a way of gauging where one is at any given time.
Potrero Hill is traditionally working-class, but as dirty industries give way to high-tech, a rapid gentrification is imminent. Time will tell.
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