Leven has dodged an award for Scotland's worst town.
Instead, Aberdeen picked up the Carbuncle prize thanks to "a litany of embarrassing missteps, from the Union Terrace Gardens fiasco to the failed bid for 2017 City of Culture, to the recent fracas over Marischal Square."
Urban Realm magazine also said the "haemorrhaging of shops on Union Street" feeds a "wider malaise" as shoppers opt for shopping centres, "sucking the life out" of surrounding streets.
The nomination for Leven, made by local historian Eric Eunson, claimed its residents are the rudest people in Scotland, calling the area "a grim post-industrial wasteland with regressive pretensions to being a seaside resort because it happens to have some sand".
Mr Eunson's nomination added "Levenmouth only exists in its component parts as a statistical entity to hide some of the consistently worst poverty indicators in the country".
Local councillor Alistair Hunter says work has been underway for some time to regenerate the town:
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