> Because you'd have to demolish acres and acres of 100+ year-old architecture (generally considered to be among the planet's most distinctive) to make it that

> Because you'd have to demolish acres and acres of 100+ year-old architecture (generally considered to be among the planet's most distinctive) to make it that way. SF's architecture is nice for being in the US. And the interesting parts are actually quite limited. The Sunset and the Richmond have pretty much zero architectural value, for instance.