Presentation about San Francisco's city

1. A cosmopolitan city San francisco

2. Seal and Flag A beautiful, Cosmopolitan and liberal city .

4. Neighborhoods

5. . This spectacular location on a peninsula adds to San Francisco’s charm. . Its small size allows visiting the city in a pleasant walk. . Tourism is the backbone of the San Francisco’s economy.

6. San Francisco is famous for its hills (more than 50)‏ from which the views are spectacular. Steep rolling hills

8. An eclectic mix of Victorian and modern architecture, little houses and skyscrapers.

9. The Golden Gate Bridge

10. Chinatown Excellent Chinese cuisine

11. Cable Cars They are oldfashioned, but everybody loves using them.

12. Fisherman's Wharf

13. Alcatraz Island A federal “maximun security” prison renowned for housing notorious inmates such as Al Capone.

14. DEMOGRAPHICS Population: Ethnic Distribution : 15.4% Gay and Lesbian 800,000 (city)‏ 7 million (including the Bay Area)‏ 60% born elsewhere 35% born outside the USA 45% Non-Hispanic white 33% Asian American (20% from China)‏ 14% Hispanic 7.3% African-American Immigrant laborers made the city a”polyglot”culture. Very few children. Homelessness is a chronic problem since the 1980s. High rates of violent and property crime.

16. Earthquake and Fire (1906) ‏

18. A LIBERAL CITY Reputation for Liberalism: Proud of its freedom, tolerance, intelligence and responsibility. Attractiveness for writers and artists: Mark Twain and Robert Louis Stevenson (in the late 1800s)‏. Jack London, Dashiel Hammet , Diego Rivera and Frida khalo (in the early 1900s).‏ Beat Generation in the 1950s. North Beach neighborhood.

19. Protest culture (Hippies) in the1960s. Haight-Ashbury “Summer of love” in 1967.

20. Center of the Gay rights movement in the 1970s. The Castro District. Election and assassination of Harvey Milk in 1978. “ Gay capital of the world.”

21. Liberal activism: Social policies: Democrats and Greens dominating city politics. Healthy San Francisco program (2006)‏

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