Modern high-rises may excite the viewer, but they help to further isolate each of us from others and ignore the environmental ills connected with their construction.

I looked to London’s many small parks for an example of how SF’s Sunset could be revitalized and found a Notting Hill neighborhood, where residences stacked around private park areas.

As San Francisco dealt with growing demand for housing in the second half of the 20th century, I joined the Planning Commmission and questioned the popular high-rise alternatives to single family homes.

This is about high-rises, their impacts, and alternatives for them in San Francisco, a city that encouraged new ideas, but retained respect for the scale and spirit of its older neighborhoods.