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RECORD presents this year's rankings compiled by Greenway Group, along with related findings of interest. James P. Cramer, chair of Greenway, offers additional insights and commentary.

Boston is at a crossroads—one that is every bit as transformative as the epic battle between the Brahmin establishment and the emerging Irish political class in the 19th century.

Even on a particularly airless late-summer evening, the appeal of the Bywater, a once-working-class New Orleans neighborhood just downriver from the French Quarter, cuts through the oppressive humidity. 

Portland is a strange land: a place where curbside compost is picked up more frequently than garbage, where the first new bridge over the Willamette River in 40 years doesn't allow private cars, and where the mayor would like to build tiny houses for the homeless on public property.

Where a garage once stood, the Sugar Hill Development rises like a charcoal escarpment interrupting the steep descent of busy 155th Street from the rocky spine of New York's upper Manhattan.