EVOLUTION OF SAN FRANCISCO | 3D CITY TIMELAPSE (1776–NOW)

In 1776 San Francisco was sand dunes, grassland and a small Spanish presidio. Watch the Gold Rush turn a village of a few hundred people into a city of 25,000 in a single year, the shoreline push out over Yerba Buena Cove, the great 1906 earthquake and fire wipe out 28,000 buildings, and the city rise again with the Golden Gate Bridge, the Bay Bridge, the Transamerica Pyramid and Salesforce Tower. Every building comes from San Francisco's own records and appears in the year it was built. A live counter tracks the city's tallest building, from the Palace Hotel to Salesforce Tower. ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 San Francisco today, rewound 0:14 1776 – The Presidio and Mission Dolores 0:28 1835 – Yerba Buena 0:46 1848 – The Gold Rush 0:58 1849 – Ships fill the cove 1:32 1873 – The first cable car 1:54 1898 – The Ferry Building 2:08 1906 – The great earthquake 2:17 1906 – The city burns 2:35 Rebuilding 2:42 1915 – Panama-Pacific Exposition 3:08 1933 – Coit Tower 3:18 1936 – Bay Bridge 3:30 1937 – Golden Gate Bridge 4:13 1972 – Transamerica Pyramid 4:35 1989 – Loma Prieta earthquake 4:55 2000 – Oracle Park 5:19 2018 – Salesforce Tower 6:18 San Francisco at night Which city should we build next? Tell us in the comments 👇 📊 DATA SOURCES Buildings: DataSF Building Footprints (2010 lidar heights) and the San Francisco Assessor-Recorder secured roll (year built); © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) – openstreetmap.org/copyright 1906 fire area: DataSF, digitized from the 1906 R.J. Waters map Terrain: Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. 2010–2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014–2018, provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA Dates: National Park Service, USGS, SF Museum, Golden Gate Bridge District, Port of San Francisco. Population: US Census Bureau. Heights: CTBUH Skyscraper Center. Shorelines before 1900 and buildings that were later demolished are approximate. 1849 population is an estimate. Music and sound effects are original, generated for this video. #SanFrancisco #Timelapse #3DAnimation #CityEvolution #GoldenGateBridge #1906Earthquake #History