Notes:
Notes:
"In 1902, an association was formed in San Francisco to secure a plan for improving and adorning the city. Mr. Burnham was selected and he had a bungalow erected on Twin Peaks in accordance with his practice of viewing a city from a high position with a commanding view. The plan and report were presented in 1906, before the destruction of the city by earthquake. That disaster might ahve been expected to give opportunity to prepare a revised plan with advantages in execution not possible before. Instead it resulted in the dropping of Mr. Burnham's plan and caused suspicion of efforts at civic improvement. The plan was beneficial, however, in inspiring citizens to develop San Francisco's civic center, although not on the site proposed in the general plan, and to construct the parkway connecting Golden Gate with the Presidio." (p. 201-202)