This is San Francisco City Hall....If Tom Menino ever sees the baronial splendor in which Mayor Gavin Newsom works, Hizzoner will be laying the demolition charges in that shanty of his on Cambridge Street before sundown.
Which raises an important point, the public spaces in San Francisco are by and large very well maintained. UC Berkeley is huge and even nigh palacial, UMass Amherst is chicken coop by comparison. The Panhandle and Golden Gate park make the Public Garden look puny in every respect.
Golden Gate Park in particular is just god-damned gorgeous, on any given Suday one half expects to meet cavorting Eloi in the Japanese Tea Garden.
Part of it is the weather, the climate favors more outdoor activities on a year round basis so the parks get more use and more upkeep. Some of it is the ethos which regards such spaces as a public good...it is just a different mentality, not necessarily better, but a different one nonetheless.
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