In the light of our PerfectCity Charter a new issue is coming up. This time the focus lies on the economic environment of a city.  When we talk about the issue we mean the following: The economic environment of a city represents the external conditions under which people are engaged in, and benefit from, economic activity that includes aspects of paid employment and household finances. The indicators of the economic environment measure the ability of households to access goods and services important to quality of life. It includes aspects of paid employment, economic status and finances.

To see what is important for a city in terms of the economic environment we composed a list of different factors. Please help us to evaluate these factors before we put them in the new poll and let our reader vote for them.

 These are our suggestions in a randomized order: 

• Geographic advantages
• Industry / Industrial foundation
• Investment environment (In how far is your city open to investments and what is done to make sure it is?)
• Tourism
• Working environment (What kind of labour and how much labour is available in the city?)
• Unemployment rate
• Demographic structure
• Employee structure (How many skilled employees are there for a certain branch of industry in your city?)
• Tax policy
• Market segmentation

What do you think about these factors? Do you see opportunities to build clusters? Is something missing or redundant? Which factors would you put up for voting in a poll? Please take a minute and lets us know what you are thinking.

We look forward to your comments and ideas!

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