Parkmerced is a planned residential neighborhood located near the southwestern edge of San Francisco. Developed after World War II, it represents one of the city’s most ambitious examples of large-scale housing design, featuring apartment buildings arranged around shared open spaces.
The neighborhood illustrates postwar planning ideals focused on density, efficiency, and separation from traditional street grids. Parkmerced provides an important case study in how San Francisco addressed housing demand through comprehensive planning rather than incremental growth.
Quick facts
- Coordinates: 37.7171533, -122.478357
- Type: Neighborhood
Contact
- ☎️ Phone: +1-877-243-5544
- 🔗 Website: https://www.parkmerced.com/
OSM tags
- Land use: Residential
- Name: Parkmerced
- Phone: +1-877-243-5544
- Place type: Neighborhood
- Website: https://www.parkmerced.com/
- Wikidata: Q7138610