Recently, the Knight Foundation teamed with Gallup to survey Knight’s 26 communities“to find out what emotionally attaches people to a community—what makes them want to put down roots and build a life there.”
This report, Knight Soul of the Community 2010, found the three most important factors to residents’ attachment to their communities were social offerings; openness; and aesthetics: “These seemingly softer needs have an even larger effect than previously thought when it comes to residents’ attachment to their communities.”