• Diamond Heights Boulevard
• Diamond Heights Shopping Center
• Gold Mine Drive
• Glen Canyon Park

Diamond Heights takes its name from Diamond Street, the historic thoroughfare that served as the gateway into the neighborhood and inspired architect Vernon DeMars to name the planned community's streets after gems and jewels. Until the mid-20th century, the hills of Diamond Heights were largely undeveloped, used primarily for rock quarrying and cattle grazing on land that had been part of Rancho San Miguel. In 1950, the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency declared the 300-acre site a project area — its first major redevelopment undertaking — and in 1951 DeMars developed a master plan that deliberately worked with, rather than against, the hilly topography. The final plan was approved October 24, 1955, and construction continued until 1978.

DeMars designed Diamond Heights Boulevard as a four-lane artery that traces the contours of the hills, and the resulting neighborhood — with its concentration of Modernist architecture, mixed-income housing, and integrated schools and commercial center — was conceived as a self-contained city within a city. The Diamond Heights Shopping Center on Diamond Heights Boulevard between Duncan Street and Gold Mine Drive remains the neighborhood's civic commercial core. Diamond Heights is unique in San Francisco for its high concentration of California Modernist residential architecture and its cohesive planned community design.

The Modernist vision built into Diamond Heights's hillside geometry is the kind of San Francisco story MY-NHD apparel is designed to carry.