San Francisco Short Story

The documentary San Francisco 2.0 examines how San Francisco city officials have given tax breaks to the Silicon Valley tech industry to move to San Francisco. These new techs companies have brought in a lot of wealth to the city, but at a cost. The majority of the low-income natives are being evicted or having their rents raised so high that they can't afford them. The gentrification of the city has impacted low-income districts (for example, the mission district known for its Latin immigrants) that the residents and the culture are being displaced. I believe the documentary is important for the study of the issue of gentrification because San Fransisco was known for being-counter culture, caring for the arts and for civil progress. The housing

Throughout all of its history, San Francisco has been one the most emblematic cities recognized around the world, as well as one that has seen many tragic events such as the earthquake of 1906, whose devastating aftermath ultimately destroyed the “Golden City” and menaced its citizenry. However, in “Story of an Eyewitness,” Jack London offers the audience a particular account of the event through the use of rhetorical devices and an extended metaphor of San Francisco’s seemingly “doomed fate,” painting a vivid and dramatic image of the tragedy that transcends the geographical and material destruction of the city in order to reveal the innermost loss and significance of San Francisco: its populace’s hope and virtue.

Introduction- The East Bay area is an economically diverse community with many satisfactory and unsatisfactory aspects. Each city had its differences and distinctions in people, settings, and cleanliness. As the bus left the station and went around the corner I could tell that we were in a low poverty city. With loose trash and debris in front of houses and apartment buildings, the area looked torn down and not very visual pleasing. Already familiar with the city of Emeryville I knew to expect a more upscale location. With plenty of name brand stores, and new apartment complexes, it was obvious this city was clean and very different from the previous location. As the bus

The overcrowded population in San Francisco led to much poverty and pollution. Many residents of San Francisco described it as overpopulated and dirty “Charles Starkweather wrote to his family that, “the whole

The Earthquake shook buildings and walls to the ground. But, what came after the quake was much more devastating. Fires broke out in every direction and this thriving city became mostly ashes. People became curious and gracious in this time of turmoil and that has never before been seen in San Francisco. When all hope was lost the firefighters made a great stand putting out the fire and ending the turmoil.

The merchants and residents were being put in situation where their safety was greatly at risk. This was very scary for those who were not used to it. “With no police force in California's cities, criminals from all over the world flocked to San Francisco. There, they could commit their crimes with little fear of punishment.” (Saffer 44)

The rhetorical significance of the documentary San Francisco 2.0. shows that the tech gold rush in San Francisco is bringing wealth to the city so it’s seen as a positive contribution, but at the cost of the city losing its soul. Many residents of diverse backgrounds that made the city’s culture are being evicted due to landlords’ greed to capitalize on the new tech bros that are flocking to the city to make money. Many business and artists are affected due to rent being tripled to accommodate the new residents. Technology brings progress, but it also increases class segregation because the wage gage increases. The rich are getting richer, while the poor stay the same. The city officials say the city of San Francisco benefit from the tech gold

We drove up the coast to San Fransisco and it took forever! Someone broke in, I got promoted and we saw the Phillies lose to the Dodgers. I got stuck in the airport for 2 days, we found Randy’s donuts and stayed in an airstream in the middle of Malibu.

Gentrification is an existential threat in the Bay Area due to urban renewal, spatial capital, and inequity. This threat can best be described as the process of residential or commercial use of an urban area shifting towards higher economic classes (Center, 199). The process of gentrification has caused many native residents to be displaced from their homes, as well as being forced to move further out of the area or become homeless. Neighborhoods that were once oasis’ for the working class are shifting and becoming too expensive for the people who live there. Food and job insecurity are two forms of inequity that contribute to gentrification practices. These three factors are key in the gentrification that is threatening Bay Area residents.

Hayes Valley is currently known for having tons of new and hip boutiques, restaurants, bars and has been recently one of San Francisco’s hotspots for art installations. Situated about three blocks away from Civic Center and about four blocks from Market, Hayes Valley offers a quiet escape for local San Franciscans who want to splurge on fine dining and clothing in contrast to other commercial parts of San Francisco filled with tourist. By no means is Hayes Valley’s commercial neighborhood only for locals, it attracts tons of tourist day by day, but in comparison to most of the other neighborhoods in the city, Hayes Valley is a modest destination t that has gone through a drastic change in the last two decades.

“San Francisco is a microcosm for what is happening not only in the US, but all over the world. It is places that increasingly desirable to live in that are becoming gated communities. I’m worried about a city that is becoming uniformly wealthy, out of reach and out of touch.”- Robert Reich

San Francisco Bay was a hard area to reach by first early explorers because of the narrowness of its opening and the constant coastal fogs. The city is laid out in a network of forty hills, which reach nearly 1000 feet. The different elevations of the hills cause different temperatures and sky conditions in different areas of the city. The Pacific Ocean and its air, allows the temperature to be predominantly pleasant. Usually, the temperature rarely rises above seventy-five degrees or below forty-five degrees, thus San Francisco is known as the city that is "air-conditioned." San Francisco's climate is very much alike to coastal Mediterranean areas of Europe. The city's temperature remains most of the time constant, however, there are two distinct

Adonis found small pleasure in the intricate details that allowed LA to be a city without being one at the same time, it was just a flat and populated suburb. The powerful smell of the Californian ocean was somewhat muffled by the thick stench of exhaust fumes that plumed from the cars that plagued the roads like rats that plagued the streets. Scurrying amongst the rats were the fleas that attached themselves to them and infected the city. Although completely repugnant to few, Adonis found humor in the irony of the city, a “city on the verge of greatness” had the look and feel of one in medieval times. War’s effects on daily life had allowed the inhabitants of the once glorious city to run rampant and completely prevented any moral authority to take control and extinguish the lustful fire of the

Los Angeles was the first product off the assembly line of American urban planning. Turned on in the late 19th century, the city-making machine was fueled by an immense immigration of people who sought to create a new type of city out of the previously quaint pueblo. They also strove to craft the first major city developed primarily by Americans and outside of European archetypes. As a result, Los Angles is not only incredibly diverse, but also nearly impossible to define. Since it is a product of the American machine, understanding the community of Los Angeles becomes vital to understanding the United States. But to fully comprehend the present Los Angeles, one must look at the process that created it. Specifically, Los Angeles was

The San Francisco bay was one of the best natural harbours in the world and it was also the gateway to the Pacific Ocean. (Loomis, 1958) This fact meant that its bay would become a leading trade centre. A rush of people were attracted to San Francisco because of its port, the natural beauty and the gold rush, where thousands of people were brought in by ship. This lead to a shortage in water in all areas and transportation services had to be improved to provide enough water to all places. A ferry service was started that crossed the river from San Francisco to Sacramento to carry heavy equipment and people to the gold fields in the time of the gold rush and just thereafter. As the population grew the ferry service improved as