SF and Marin were Supposed to Look Like this by Now

A bridge to Marin via Alcatraz and Angel Islands. Yesssssss.

Dubai at least gets artificial islands that look like palm trees ... why did we get a robot claw?

Well I know one thing that happened: The McAteer-Petris act, the "primary purpose of [which] is to promote responsible planning and regulation of San Francisco Bay. The Act emphasizes the elimination of the unnecessary placement of fill in the Bay, the use of the Bay for water-oriented uses."

Thank you en-vi-ro-MENTAL-ists for eliminating my Jetson's super jet future with your concerns about wetlands, sustainability and 'flood control'. I coulda had an atom powered lawn mower!

I don't like this future! The Mission is too damn foggy.

I do want that second bridge across the bay to Oakland airport though.

Then again I think we are all supposed to have flying cars so I guess we don't need airports.

in the future, they call pages "paginas"

Doesn't the Golden Gate Tunnel make this all irrelevant anyway?

"Those in the know, go below."

Hovercrafts are big in SFs future as well

And here we have someone building a giant pyramid over Alcatraz.

I guess the New York of the future is comfortable with nuclear power. (Someone should show this to McCain.)

Coasties don't care what you all do to the Bay. Just stay away from the beaches...

I love the horrific irony that the road to the northern huge-ass pincer landfill suburb-thing goes through notoriously outsider-friendly Bolinas.

Yeah, that'd go over well.

What happened? Mussolini was defeated. That set monumental architecture back 100 years, I tells ya.

Modernism failed. Thankfully.

I love how the two square parks are so close to each other, yet there's no bridge between them, making them effectively miles apart.

I'd say the automobile happened, paired with auto-centric planning, San Jose, Oakland.

@zstone

THAT is autocentric planning. look at the size of those man made islands along with the many linear conveyances (boulevards, bridges, etc.) Early to Mid-20th Century Americans considered rail travel to be quaint and outdated. The automobile, fueled by an endless supply of dirt cheap petroleum, would render the rails obsolete. It's one of the reasons we embraced the hideous modernist design mentality of morons like Le Corbusier that produced inhuman abortions like Cabrini Green in Chicago and the almost freeway right down the Panhandle. As usual, Europeans rejected the autocentric, but prolly because they kept blowing all their infrastructure up with silly wars, their cities were all so close together, and rail was (and is) a cheaper and more efficient means of transportation than roads. This means something when you're constantly rebuilding your country.

In the future, planes fly ridiculously close to each other! How daring.

Interesting how the Cal campus has grown 2/3 of the way west to the Bay.

not a weapon, immigrant detectors.

It's not Modernism, it's Brutalism. The parks on the ends are the size of the Presidio, think how enormous the Phalluses of Capitalist Power would be.

That would ruin the surf at Ocean Beach. But I would forgive all if the plans included a subway to Hawaii.

"Daly happened"

I understand that finding any excuse to bash him is something of an online pastime, but I guarantee you the vast majority of San Franciscans would hail Chris Daly as the greatest politician in the city's history if he had single-handedly prevented this enormous Sunset-penis from being (erm) erected. What a horrible, horrible idea this would be.