The name San Francisco is used to name the city and urban district on the west coast of the United States. One of the most famous cities in America is located in the state of California.
San Francisco Geography
The coordinates of the city are as follows: 37 ° 46′00 ″ s. w. 122 ° 26′00 ″ s e. Over the course of its long history, the city has attracted people of different backgrounds, religions, and professions, but the heyday of the settlement fell on the years of the Gold Rush, when adventurers and adventurers poured onto the shores of San Francisco Bay from across the country in search of quick enrichment.
The growth of the urban population continued throughout the second half of the nineteenth century. In one year (from 1848 to 1849), the population of San Francisco grew from a thousand to twenty-five thousand people. Later, such a rapid population growth will create serious problems, and local authorities will be forced to divide the city into several districts - for the convenience of management. In turn, such a division will provoke the development of the local party mafia, and by the beginning of the twentieth century the city will be in a serious managerial crisis.
City at the turn of the century
At the beginning of the XX century, the city is overtaken by a series of crises that local managers are trying to solve by restructuring and changing the urban layout. As conceived by local authorities and tycoons, San Francisco, whose coordinates are 37 ° 46′00 ″ s. w. 122 ° 26′00 ″ s D., was to turn into West Paris.
However, nature itself made adjustments to these plans - in 1906 an earthquake occurred in the vicinity of the city, which caused flooding at first, and later a terrible fire, which destroyed up to eighty percent of urban development.
However, it seems that the geographical coordinates of San Francisco and the climate of California contributed to the speedy restoration of the city and its transformation into a tourist center of the world with such famous features as hilly terrain, winter fogs and cable cars.