This will be my last San Francisco post for the foreseeable future. I am aware that there are other neighborhoods in the city which fulfi...

This neighborhood of San Francisco is named after a Russian cemetery discovered atop the hill by gold rushers in the 19th century. Th...

For whatever reason, information about Presidio Heights is scarce. Apart from a few short descriptions, I haven't been able to find any...

Pacific Heights is stylistically quite similar to some parts of Cow Hollow, a mix of architecture from the past 100 years. In Pacific Heigh...

Sometimes thrown in with either the Marina or Pacific Heights, Cow Hollow is in fact its own neighborhood, characterized by busy shoppi...

The Marina district is situated at the northeastern corner of the Presidio park, bounded on the west by the Palace of Fine Arts, on the eas...

I have chosen San Francisco as my first case study, because the West Coast still has a strong aura for me, having never personally been t...