… For the past month, CityLab has reported results from the Atlantic Media/Siemens State of the City poll, which explored how Americans living in urban, suburban, and rural areas rate their communities on all the key components of daily life, from education, transportation and safety to the environment and culture.
The survey’s results suggest that suburbs, the form of community that’s grown most over the past half century, retain many advantages. But the poll’s larger story may be how much urban, suburban, and rural Americans converge in how they view the direction in which their communities are heading—and how other distinctions, like race, education, and home ownership, now often mark deeper divides than geography. CONT.
Ron Brownstein, CityLab