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“The coronavirus outbreak and economic calamity worldwide, has caused a lot of demand for defunding existing corrupt systems, seasteading concepts, and charter city ideas like Pronomos Capital. During the last month, Friedman told the media that there is ‘a lot of interest’ from people emailing him about charter cities and how to get started.” In the wake of the…
“More and more people can work remotely and are not tied to existing cities, so there is demand to create new places for them to live, with new regulatory frameworks.” Business Insider reported on the growing desire of tech-industry professionals to exchange their old offices for new, autonomous cities. You can read the full article…
“But what if there was a solution? What if there was a way to transform refugee camps from economic drains to powerhouses? This is the idea: to transform the camps into cities or special economic zones for refugees. These cities could be new autonomous cities within the territory of the host country and would operate…
“A Free Private City is to urban life what Space-X is to space travel and exploration. Just as prior to Space-X only governments launched into space, now it can no longer be said that only governments can build new cities.” The Economic Standard’s new article explains how Free Private Cities’ market-based approach can benefit not…
“Inspired by Nobel laureate Paul Romer’s theory of growth and his work on charter cities, it has become clear that the legal and administrative framework, the “software” so to speak, determines whether or not a society will prosper. The right “software” (legal frameworks, institutions) is far more important than the “hardware” (e.g. infrastructure).” African Liberty…
“Seasteading, a portmanteau describing a politically autonomous community built in international waters, has long held an appeal for people in Silicon Valley, a bastion of libertarian values, share an obsession with disrupting the status quo and decentralisation.” The New Zealand Herald published a piece discussing the future of Seasteading and its appeal to high-profile technology…
“In most countries the relationship of the citizen to the government resembles somebody who wants to buy a car — but the car dealer insists that he will choose the model, the color, the size of the motor, the interior, as well as finally decide the price you have to pay for it. And you…
“Strange as it may sound, there is a long history of founding new cities during periods of massive upheaval, and each time it was these very ‘frontier’ settlements that drove broader economic and social recovery after the crisis passed.” The Economic Standard‘s editor-in-chief, Erik Sass, explores the potential that this old human tradition has, and…
“Many different alternative models could fit roughly under the “private city” definition. A foundation called Startup Societies advocates for some of them, such as special economic zones (SEZs), microstates, seasteads, and eco-villages. […] A more explicitly private version comes from Titus Gebel, who runs the website Free Private Cities.” Scott Beyer wrote about the necessary bottom-up…
“Special Economic Zones are utilized also in China and many other countries around the world to foster innovation, prosperity, and employment. Shenzhen began its transformation into a Special Economic Zone in 1980 and today has a GDP of more than $360 billion and an annualized growth rate of more than seven percent. No wonder it…
