An Eye on the Street

This city’s unique magnificence resides in the long and middle distance. Its iconic views are from hilltop to hilltop, of fog cascading over piles of white cubes diced up by a perfect grid that seems to amplify the topography by ignoring it; of the city’s incomparable natural setting — of ocean and headland, bay and mountain — seen from the Presidio, the bridges, the islands. It’s as if we understand San Francisco best by getting out of it, or above it, and looking back at it.

An interesting, quick, and old(!) read from Benjamin Grant about what's ailing San Francisco streets and how important said streets are to the public realm. Introduced here with a photo of the middle distance view, since I, fittingly, take so few from the street level.