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The Pacific Ocean’s cool currents combined with the higher temperatures of the California mainland, produce the fog and mist which clings to San Francisco’s famous hills in spring and summer. These landmark hills of Twin Peaks, Nob Hill, Pacific Heights and Russian Hill are now to be rivalled by the newly formed mounds presiding over the verdant roof of the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park.
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Flannery, J.A., Smith, K.M. (2011). California Academy of Sciences. In: Eco-Urban Design. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0369-8_2
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