Can people who work in the city please tell me of issues which could be needed to be resolved as I ...........

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............... thought that if people could give me personal oppinions on problems in business in the city then I could look at these specific problems as a dissertation question for my last year of Uni

im not looking for figures just topics that I can look into and use as a dissertation question or at least formulate one from the topics raised in the answers I recieve

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Answer 1

As noted, your question is so broad and open ended (and not very well-worded), so even people who might help are likely to skip over it.

You refer to "the city," but it's not clear if you're speaking about cities in general, or perhaps large cities in particular, or perhaps just one specific city which you assumed (incorrectly) that we'd all know you were talking about.

If you identify your course and/or field of study (political science? economics? finance? business administration?), it would help; it would also help to offer some examples of ideas you may already be considering, or ideas that you've rejected.

Assuming that you are seeking ideas for dissertation topics related to "problems faced by businesses in large cities," then some ideas could be:

- impact of local transit on businesses (mass transit accessibility, freeways, public parking, safety of public transit, access to skilled labor forces outside the city)
- impact of local taxation on businesses
- impact of local regulation on businesses ("living wage" ordinances; health insurance mandates; carpool-incentive requirements; downtown assessment districts)
- impact of local school quality on businesses
- emergency-planning issues (costs and benefits of safety training of staff, food and water storage requirements)
- relative impacts of central-city locations and rents (are higher downtown rents offset by benefits of the location, such as access to mass transit or to passers-by?)

Answer 2

It would help if you said waht your Degree course was .. anyway, I'll assume it's something like Economics & Finance ...

One good choice might be 'How to Restore Public Faith in the Banking System after what happened to Northern Rock' ...