Rating the suburbs? Every June, Cleveland Magazine publishes its Rating the Suburbs issue, a popular feature that ranks the most desirable communities in Northeast Ohio. This years top five suburbs Mayfield Village, Chardon, Solon, Brecksville, and Pepper Pike are typical winners. They are outer-ring suburbs (with the exception of Chardon, the county seat of Geauga County) with lots of expensive homes and schools that perform well on proficiency tests. Not coincidentally, they also are the kinds of places with an abundance of wealthy homeowners prized by the magazines advertisers. Snubbed by the rankings are older, inner-ring suburbs. (City neighborhoods arent even ranked.) They rank low because the ranking system doesnt give many points for doing the hard work of addressing the regions aging infrastructure needs and social and economic problems. With this in mind, here are a few ideas for a more balanced ranking system a system that would recognize qualities that make the region more sustainable and just.
The Rating the Suburbs issue raises questions about what we value as a region. While all ranking systems involve difficult choices about the selection of measures and the availability of data, its important that they do so with awareness of the underlying values. The key question we should be asking when ranking our suburbs is how each community contributes to the overall quality of life and sustainability of the region. Some communities are shouldering greater burdens, and they deserve everyones respect and support. EcoCity Cleveland |
Valuing America's First Suburbs report
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