San Francisco City Hall on Civic Center plaza in 2004

San Francisco's Civic Center is an area of a few blocks north of the intersection of Market Street and van Ness Avenuethat contains many of the city's largest government and cultural institutions. It has two large plazas and a number of buildings in classical architectural style. Its beauty is marred, however, by a reputation for being one of the more popular parts of the city for the homeless and the drug addicted due to its proximity to the Tenderloin. It is the locale of many rallies, demonstrations, and festivals. Download high resolution version (1280x960, 320 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (1280x960, 320 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... San Francisco skyline. ... Market Street is a street in San Francisco, California that runs from the Ferry Building on San Francisco Bay at the north eastern edge of the city going southwest and terminating as a major throughfare at Castro Street. ... A homeless man pushes a cart down the street. ... Drug addiction, or dependency is the compulsive use of drugs, to the point where the user has no effective choice but to continue use. ... Tenderloin is: Beef tenderloin Tenderloin, Manhattan Tenderloin, San Francisco Tenderloin, a musical from 1960, involved Hal Prince, Maurice Evans, Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick Tenderloin; a novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams. ...

Notable buildings

• Main Library
• City Hall
• Opera House
• Davies Symphony Hall
• Herbst Theater, where the U.N. Charter was signed in 1946.
• Asian Art Museum, opened in 2004 in the former building of the San Francisco Library.

San Francisco City Hall, built 1915 The City Hall of San Francisco California, opened in 1915, in its mall site in the citys Civic Center, is a Beaux-Arts monument to the brief City Beautiful movement that epitomized the high-minded American Renaissance of the period 1880-1917. ...

Transportation

Civic Center Station is a subway stop for both BART and the Muni Metro, as well for the historic streetcars and Muni buses. Civic Center Station is a Muni Metro and BART station near the Civic Center in downtown San Francisco, California. ... This article describes subways as mass transit lines. ... BART (in full, San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District) is a rapid transit electric train service that serves parts of the San Francisco Bay Area, including the cities of San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, Fremont, and Walnut Creek. ... Muni Metro Map Muni Metro is a mass transit system operated in the city of San Francisco by the San Francisco Municipal Railway. ...

External links

• Maps and aerial photos
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  • Topographic map from TopoZone
  • Aerial image from TerraServer-USA
  • Satellite image from Google Maps