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San Francisco
California
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![]() A building, or edifice, is a structure with a roof and walls standing more or less permanently in one place, such as a house or factory. Buildings come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and functions, and have been adapted throughout history for a wide number of factors, from building materials available, to weather conditions, land prices, ground conditions, specific uses, and aesthetic reasons.[from wikipedia]
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![]() Walks around San Francisco based on book self-guided tours.
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![]() All have been decomission over time
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![]() Litter consists of waste products that have been discarded incorrectly, without consent, at an unsuitable location. Litter can also be used as a verb; to litter means to drop and leave objects, often man-made, such as aluminum cans, paper cups, fast food wrappers, cardboard boxes or plastic bottles on the ground, and leave them there indefinitely or for other people to dispose of as opposed to disposing of them correctly.[from wikipedia]
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![]() Mini parks are ignificantly smaller than a normal park.
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![]() The many fine museums of San Francsico.
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![]() Rule of law, government based not on arbitrary decisions of officials but on laws.[from wikipedia]
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![]() A newspaper vending machine or newspaper rack is a vending machine designed to distribute newspapers. Newspaper vending machines are used worldwide, and they are often one of the main distribution methods for newspaper publishers.[from wikipedia]
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![]() Park And Recreation administered open land
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![]() This city has many well known parades.
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![]() Parklets are intended for people. Parklets offer a place to stop, to sit, and to rest while taking in the activities of the street. In instances where a parklet is not intended to accommodate people, it may provide greenery, art, or some other visual amenity. A parklet may accommodate bicycle parking within it, or bicycle parking may be associated with it.[from wikipedia]
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![]() Francisco has so many piers it is without peer
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![]() Privately owned but publically accessable parks add to the open spaces of the city.
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![]() In the Western world, the concept of a restaurant as a public venue where waiting staff serve patrons food from a fixed menu is a relatively recent one, dating from the late 18th century.[from wikipedia]
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![]() In the United States, the term sidewalk is used for the pedestrian path beside a road. "Shared use paths" or "multi-use paths" are available for use by both pedestrians and bicyclists.[from wikipedia]
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![]() There was often no reason to write the establishment's name on the sign and inns opened without a formal written nameāthe name being derived later from the illustration on the public house's sign. In this sense, a pub sign can be thought of as an early example of visual branding.[from wall paper mural]
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![]() A skyline is the horizon created by a city's overall structure, or by human intervention in a non-urban setting or in nature. City skylines serve as a kind of fingerprint as no two skylines are alike. For this reason, news and sports programs, television shows, and movies often display the skyline of a city to set a location[from wikipedia]
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![]() Stairs are a structure designed to bridge a large vertical distance between lower and higher levels by dividing it into smaller vertical distances. This is achieved as a diagonal series of horizontal platforms called steps which enable passage to the other level by stepping from one to another step in turn.[from wikipedia]
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![]() Retail markets and shops have a very ancient history, dating back to antiquity. Some of the earliest retailers were itinerant peddlers. Over the centuries, retail shops were transformed from little more than "rude booths" to the sophisticated shopping malls of the modern era.[from wikipedia]
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![]() A street is a public thoroughfare in a built environment. It is a public parcel of land adjoining buildings in an urban context, on which people may freely assemble, interact, and move about.[from wikipedia]
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![]() Transport or transportation is the movement of humans, animals and goods from one location to another. In other words the action of transportation is defined as a particular movement of an organism or thing from a point A to the Point B.[from wikipedia]
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![]() Treasure Island is an artificial island in the San Francisco Bay and a neighborhood in the City and County of San Francisco. Built in 1936-37 for the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition, the island's World's Fair site is a California Historical Landmark.[from wikipedia]
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![]() In botany, a tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, usually supporting branches and leaves.[from wikipedia]
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![]() Utility box art is a form of street art whereby utility boxes on city streets are painted or otherwise covered in artwork.[from wikipedia]
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