Cathedral City

There are an almost infinite number of ways to make a city pleasant to live in. Or rather, if one reads the profiles that the Southern California Association of Governments has created in its rundown of model cities in the region, there are an infinite number of ways in which one can combine a small number of basic amenities to create a good place to live. This paper profiles one of the cities that has succeeded in creating a highly livable space for its inhabitants: The Riverside County desert city of Cathedral City.

Before proceeding with an examination of the city and what it has done right, according to SCAG, it is important to note that not all options of livability are open to every city and not every option of livability would be equally embraced by all citizens. The ideals of people living in Berkeley are different from those living in Atlanta: Neither is better or worse. Cities are not interchangeable, however; they reflect local cultural conditions.

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