San Francisco is very well known for its culture status. When you walk around the city, it will be apparent that the city has a culturally fascinating streetscape. Whenever I see images of the city streets, it is very easy to identify that the photos are taken in San Francisco. The architecture of the buildings and design of the streets make the city easily distinguishable.Another thing that extremely affected the look and feel of the city is the result of the dot-com boom. With the significant demand of new workers in the technological field, there has a been a clear shift from blue-collar workers to white-collar works. As a result many of the neighborhoods in San Francisco which were common to the middle/lower class residents have witnessed gentrification. That is, these neighborhoods experienced mass redevelopment into higher class businesses, restaurants, and residential buildings.
As already mentioned before San Francisco has a large immigrant population. Therefore, the city has a considerable influence by these newcomers. Many neighborhoods are dedicated to different ethnic groups, and the look of the neighborhoods themselves evidently reflect it such as Chinatown.
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| A typical store in the Haight/Ashbury district |
San Francisco, being the hub of liberal activism, also has great influence on the look and feel of the city. Especially when visiting the district of Haight and Ashbury, you get a good sense of the hippie feel when you walk the streets. There were countless number of smoke shops, bars, music stores in which you would attract the young adults.
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http://web.archive.org/web/20050211032911/http://spur.org/documents/010701_article_03.shtm
http://www.mercer.com/referencecontent.htm?idContent=1307990
http://web.archive.org/web/20070710072642/http://www.sfgov.org/site/uploadedfiles/moed/economic_strat/ExecutiveSummary_EconomicPerformanceReview.pdf
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