Long TextExercise 21 of 81

The San Francisco of today has a rich and colourful history, starting in 1776, when it was founded by colonists from Spain, through The California Gold Rush of 1849, to being rebuilt after the 1906 earthquake and fire. In all this time it has seen some dark days, but none darker than the present. It became famous as…

• What is the writer trying to explain with this text?
• What, according to the writer, are the objectives of the people who advocate this plan in the second paragraph?