{"id":1530,"date":"2014-02-28T09:56:31","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T09:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=1530"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:50:33","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:50:33","slug":"cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2014\/02\/28\/cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.endeavor.org\/blog\/endeavor-insight-report-reveals-the-top-qualities-that-entrepreneurs-look-for-in-a-city\/\">What Do the Best Entrepreneurs Want In A City?<br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong>The latest report from Endeavor Insight, contains interviews with 150 top USA executives in the qualities they want in locating a business in a specific area.\u00a0 Download the full report from the website.<\/p>\n<p>For more on this topic read:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A recent Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) research report,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.economistinsights.com\/sites\/default\/files\/downloads\/Hot%20Spots.pdf%20http:\/www.citigroup.com\/citi\/citiforcities\/home_articles\/n_eiu_2013.htm\">Hot Spots 2025: Benchmarking the Future Competitiveness of Cities<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>For a broader perspective on general social conditions \u00a0you could also download their\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eiu.com\/public\/thankyou_download.aspx?activity=download&amp;campaignid=Liveability2013\">Global Liveability Ranking and Report<\/a>\u00a0August 2013.\u00a0Every city is assigned a rating of relative comfort for over 30 qualitative and quantitative factors\u00a0across five broad categories: stability; healthcare; culture and environment; education; and\u00a0infrastructure.<\/li>\n<li>Other alternatives are: the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercer.com\/qualityoflivingpr#city-rankings\">\u00a0Mercer Quality of Living Worldwide\u00a0City Rankings 2014<\/a>. It\u00a0evaluates local living conditions in more than 460 cities it surveys worldwide.\u00a0 These are analysed according to 39 factors.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipsos-mori.com\/_assets\/topcity\/index.html\">The Ipsos Cities Survey<\/a>\u00a0was conducted online in 24 countries around the world, during February 2013. A total of 18,147 people were asked three questions: \u201cBased on what you have seen yourself, or heard about from others, which three cities in the world do you think are the best to\u2026(a) do business in (b) live in (c) visit?\u00a0 Find out the answers by consulting the website!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Do the Best Entrepreneurs Want In A City? The latest report from Endeavor Insight, contains interviews with 150 top USA executives in the qualities they want in locating a business in a specific area.\u00a0 Download the full report from the website. For more on this topic read: A recent Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,15],"tags":[33,235,237,107,134,123],"class_list":["post-1530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-finance","category-sociology","tag-cities","tag-economics","tag-finance","tag-health","tag-living-conditions","tag-social-attitudes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1531,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions\/1531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}