3A world cities

LA vs SF

Theses two cities contribute so much to y culture and the culture of California. California is so big that north and south define two seperate cultures illistrated mostly by these two cities. SF is a town rich in culture and LA is where stars go to be born. That is how this ties into humanities.

What are some assumptions/stereotypes you think people have of each location:

Los Angeles is very commonly thought of as the movie capital of the world. People seem to think everyone who lives there are rich or famous. Los Angeles is thought of as one of the most crowded and traffic filled cities in the world.

San Francisco is commonly thought of as the gay community. San Francisco has one of the largest gay communities in the country. San Francisco is also commonly thought of as one of the most beautiful cities in the world with such attractions as the Golden Gate Bridge.

List 3 things that make each location similar:
Each of these cities have baseballs teams, who both made their way over from New York in the 1950’s. Even more remarkable is the fact that these two teams were rivals back in New York and remained rivals as they moved across the country.

At one point both cities were respectively considered the movie capitals of the world. Before LA became the place where stars go, it looked as though San Francisco would become the magical movie place. However the constant disaster of natural earthquakes eventually made it so the movie industry would move down the state and end up in LA.

As shocking as this might be, over the past decade the cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles have actually had very high crime rates.

List 3 things that make each location so different: 1 point
Even though they are both big cities, the amount of land in the city of LA is almost double the amount in San Francisco. San Francisco is a city that is surrounded by the “Bay” while Los Angeles is surrounded by neighboring cities.

LA has nearly ideal weather. It always seems, as the weather is nice and sunny. While San Francisco still has nice weather almost year round, fog is a big issue. Since the city is right next to the bay, fog usually hides some of those sunny days.

Even though LA is viewed as a rich and famous city, it is actually more expensive to live in the city of San Francisco.

Questioning: I have learned that both the cities of SF and LA have high crime rates, I wonder what each of the cities is trying to do to lower each of these rates?

Last week Denya (http://dbeaudryhuman7.blogspot.com/2008/06/2a-san-francisco.html) wrote her blog about San Francisco. She brought up that San Francisco is rich in diversity and Culture. I, like the most of us, have lived around here for a while, and San Francisco is the perfect mix of culture. San Francisco defines culture.

Sources

San Francisco.com :http://www.sanfrancisco.com/news/

Los Angeles news: http://www.knbc.com/index.html

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco