"The City in Your Pocket: Daily Kos Praises Istanbul's Akbil System, Turkey's Rail Plans
by Jennifer Hattam, Istanbul, Turkey on 08. 2.09
Besides holding more than 12 times as many inhabitants and being way, way bigger, I like to tell people, Istanbul is a lot like my hometown of San Francisco -- geographically, at least. From my neighborhood on the city's European side, I can look across the sparkling waters of the Bosphorus to the industrial shipyards and, above, the greener, more residential hills of the Asian side, a view reminiscent in many ways of that from San Francisco to the Port of Oakland and the rest of the East Bay. But when it comes to actually traversing that landscape, the differences are much starker than the similarities."
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