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“The pioneers always had big plans for San Francisco – but it turned out to be a city of neighborhoods built around a downtown core. There were four reasons for this: geography, changing housing patterns, transit lines and disasters like the 1906 earthquake and fire.”

Here is an interesting piece from the San Francisco Chronicle on the growth of San Francisco’s neighbourhoods and the history of its urban form.

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