12/30/2025
How satisfied are people with the cities they call home, and what gives certain places their pull? These questions lie at the heart of City Pulse 2025: The Magnetic City, a comprehensive study by the Gensler Research Institute that surveyed more than 33,000 residents across 65 cities worldwide between Spring 2020 and early 2025. The ambition of the research is pragmatic as much as philosophical: to help city leaders, planners, and developers understand which investments meaningfully improve quality of life and which merely gesture at it.
If you geek out over urban planning like we do then you will enjoy this overview of the Gensler Research Institute study. Don’t miss the Texas Showdown section that compares the opinions of residents in San Antonio, Austin, Houston, and Dallas!
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https://moderninsanantonio.com/magnetic-city-what-makes-urban-life-stick