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Nothing great about LA

Contributed by raphaelmazor on October 2nd, 2007 at 7:06 pm

The American Planning Association has released their list of the top 10 neighborhoods in the US (and top 10 streets, too).

The neighborhoods were ranked “by several characteristics, including good design, functionality, sustainability, and community involvement.”

Not surprisingly, LA failed to make it onto either list. Probably because it lacks good design, functionality, sustainability, and community involvement.

We were out-did by out neighbors to the north (North Beach in SF) and south (Hillcrest in SD).

(Personally, I’m a bit hurt that my hometown of Boston didn’t get mentioned on either list.)

Anyway, I toss this out to the group: what neighborhoods in LA should have made the list? Or at least, been a good contender?

Pick from this map:LA City Neighborhoods

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  1. Not surprisingly, LA failed to make it onto either list. Probably because it lacks good design, functionality, sustainability, and community involvement.

    pretty much got it dead on raphael… la loses hard in all those categories but i still love it so screw the apa. they didn’t throw wrigleyville in there either. lame.

    Comment by tykejohnson on October 3rd, 2007 at 11:36 am »Reply« resta suma

  2. OK, I added a map I found somewhere (I forget where!) of LA hoods.

    For the sake of argument. I’m going to nominate San Pedro as meeting the APA’s ideals of good design, functionality, sustainability, and community involvement.

    Why San Pedro. Oh, I dont know. I just like boats!

    Comment by raphaelmazor on October 3rd, 2007 at 4:04 pm »Reply« resta suma

  3. Park Slope can suck it. Los Feliz should have made it on there.

    Comment by badMike on October 4th, 2007 at 4:42 pm »Reply« resta suma

  4. LA has very strong neighborhood involvment in fact much stronger than most NYC hoods…..why do you think it takes things so long to get approved? Silver Lake, Hollywood, Los Feliz, Echo Park, Downtown LA should have all been mentioned. Their are just a bunch of LA haters out there.

    Comment by Barbara Davis Jr. on October 8th, 2007 at 8:42 am »Reply« resta suma

  5. Barbara, I think things take so long here becuase California is part of the western anti-government-all-power-at-the-lowest-possible-level political tradition, in contrast to the east coast’s corrupt-yet-efficient machine system.

    But this isn’t an issue of anyone hating on LA (though indeed they do). It’s an issue of our neighborhoods lacking the features that most people value in neighborhoods.

    Comment by raphaelmazor on October 8th, 2007 at 1:27 pm »Reply« resta suma