Best of the Downtown Rejects (live, better, America, Atlanta)

[the topper]

Best of the Downtown Rejects: Downtowns that were not on the list of best downtown in America. Here's the best of the rest of downtowns.

Criteria:

1. Vitality
2. Ambiance
3. Walkability
4. Cleanliness
5. High rises
6. Transit
7. Cohesiveness


1. Kansas City
2. San Diego
3. Cincinnati
4. Baltimore
5. St. Louis
6. Atlanta
7. Sacramento
8. Phoenix
9. Richmond
10.Hartford

[mhays25]

San Diego has a good downtown with a residential and tourist focus. Fifth is one of the best restaurant corridors I've seen in the US. This is all possible in part because the office presence is small.

[kcmo]

Originally Posted by the topper

Best of the Downtown Rejects: Downtowns that were not on the list of best downtown in America. Here's the best of the rest of downtowns.

Criteria:

1. Vitality
2. Ambiance
3. Walkability
4. Cleanliness
5. High rises
6. Transit
7. Cohesiveness


1. Kansas City
2. San Diego
3. Cincinnati
4. Baltimore
5. St. Louis
6. Atlanta
7. Sacramento
8. Phoenix
9. Richmond
10.Hartford

San Diego is by far the best of the cities on this list IMO.

Baltimore, Cincinnati, Kansas City and Richmond would all be pretty close together after SD.

[JMatl]

Originally Posted by mhays25

San Diego has a good downtown with a residential and tourist focus. Fifth is one of the best restaurant corridors I've seen in the US. This is all possible in part because the office presence is small.

Agreed, San Diego does have a good Downtown and it's only getting better. Fifth is great, and the park and surrounding vibrant neighborhoods only enhance it. Little Italy is cool as well.

Most of the office jobs are in UTC, Sorrento Mesa and points North.

[LeBreque]

Yep, no doubt, SD, but I'm biased, I live in LJ to the north

[TheseGoTo11]

San Diego.

Baltimore is barely walkable outside of a few blocks near Fells Point and Pratt Street, that are all a few blocks themselves away from awful ghettoes.

[KodeBlue]

Originally Posted by TheseGoTo11

San Diego.

Baltimore is barely walkable outside of a few blocks near Fells Point and Pratt Street, that are all a few blocks themselves away from awful ghettoes.

Mt. Vernon, Little Italy, Harbor East, Fells Point, Federal Hill, are all very walkable neighborhoods in and around downtown. Far more than "a few blocks."

[Borntoolate85]

Originally Posted by the topper

Best of the Downtown Rejects: Downtowns that were not on the list of best downtown in America. Here's the best of the rest of downtowns.

Criteria:

1. Vitality
2. Ambiance
3. Walkability
4. Cleanliness
5. High rises
6. Transit
7. Cohesiveness


1. Kansas City
2. San Diego
3. Cincinnati
4. Baltimore
5. St. Louis
6. Atlanta
7. Sacramento
8. Phoenix
9. Richmond
10.Hartford

Here's my overall ranking, with 1 being the best and 10 being the worst overall, which each city receiving a different value. It's a little confusing without a table, but simply read from left to right.


Vitality Ambiance Walkability Cleanliness High rises Transit Cohesiveness Overall
Kansas City 4 6 7 1 2 4 7 3
San Diego 2 1 1 3 5 2 2 1
Cincinnati 6 4 2 5 7 5 6 5
Baltimore 8 9 3 10 4 3 4 6
St. Louis 9 10 6 9 6 9 8 10
Atlanta 1 3 8 7 1 1 3 2
Sacramento 3 2 9 2 10 7 1 4
Phoenix 10 7 10 4 3 10 10 9
Richmond 5 5 4 8 8 6 5 7
Hartford 7 8 5 6 9 8 9 8

[Metal To The Core]

Cincinnati has a killer downtown!! It definitely doesn't have the best transit, though!

[R1070]

Cincinnati has a very good downtown area. I think it could support the subway that was never completed.