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This Shig can’t be flushed

Contributed by Wad on October 24th, 2007 at 1:30 am

[tags]california, urban planning, paul shigley, california planning & development report[/tags]

Paul Shigley, editor of California Planning & Development Report, is going for the trifecta. He brought you California’s best big-city downtowns, and followed it up wth California’s best downtowns for mid-sized cities. In what is sure to be urban planners’ equivalent of the Star Wars Trilogy, Shigley closes the series with California’s best small-town downtowns.

Small towns, over 377 in the Golden State per Shigley, are populations of 75,000 or less.  Shigley welcomes comments on his blog, and reader comments are weighted to the list that will be released next month. Go over there and give him your what-for. Posting here would be nice, too.

See also MetroRiderLA’s award-nominated coverage of the Best Downtowns trilogy:

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  1. I’m having trouble thinking of cities under 75k. Ummm, offhand i’d have to say Seal Beach and Capitola in the north. I’m sure there are plenty others.

    Comment by johnny on October 24th, 2007 at 9:16 am »Reply« resta suma

  2. There’s again a lot of crap-towns with no downtown worth mentioning, esp. down here in the LA Basin/Inland Empire.

    What are the best in our region?

    I kinda like Oceanside and Seal Beach. I kinda hate Malibu, but I can see why it might rank. I love those tiny backcountry towns (Julian), but they might be a bit too small to bother discussing….

    Outside our region, I like Davis and Santa Cruz. Berkeley will get slammed, no doubt, but perhaps more than it deserves. Walnut Creek won’t get slammed enough.

    Comment by raphaelmazor on October 24th, 2007 at 9:21 am »Reply« resta suma