Blog Posts

Tamara Winter

Charter cities offer residents in emerging economies something they rarely get: a choice of where and under which institutions to live.

Blog Posts

Tamara Winter

Blog Posts

Dr. Mark Lutter

Executive Director Mark Lutter parses the distinction between large real estate projects and viable cities.

Blog Posts

Kurtis Lockhart

A call for academic papers ahead of the inaugural Charter Cities Conference on March 17-18, 2020.

Blog Posts

Tamara Winter

Blog Posts

Dr. Mark Lutter

Paul Romer went to Burning Man.

Research

Jeffrey Mason

Sustained economic growth is the world’s best poverty reduction tool. In this paper, Research Associate Jeffrey Mason argues that charter cities are a highly cost-effective way to ignite long-run growth.

Events

Dr. Mark Lutter

We are happy to announced the 1st and 2nd prize winners of our Technology Zone White Paper Contest: Ross Marchand and Ryan Hagemann.

Blog Posts

Tamara Winter

As the Center has grown and developed, so has the substance of our internal conversations.

Blog Posts

Jeffrey Mason

On the connection between charter cities and effective altruism.

Events

Tamara Winter

On May 2nd, Executive Director Mark Lutter and Communications Lead Tamara Winter spoke at the Lincoln Network’s Reboot American Innovation Conference.

Contests

Dr. Mark Lutter

The Charter Cities Institute is pleased to announce our Charter Cities Business Plan Contest. First-place prize is $25,000 and second place receives $10,000.

Blog Posts

Dr. Mark Lutter

Noah Smith recently asked me on Twitter to compare charter cities to Millennium Villages.

Blog Posts

Dr. Mark Lutter

I recently tweeted that the Charter Cities Institute is “Gonna make charter cities replicable. Charter cities in a box.” I’d like to unpack what I mean by that.

Blog Posts

Dr. Mark Lutter

Some answers to frequently asked questions about charter cities.

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Dr. Mark Lutter

A charter city is a city given a special jurisdiction to create a new governance system.

Presentations

Tamara Winter

We’re pleased to share our new brochure, “Building the Future of Governance.”

Blog Posts

Dr. Mark Lutter

Inspired by these questions and others we’ve received, we’ll also be posting an FAQ on the website in the coming days.

Research

Dr. Mark Lutter

We have a new working paper by Jorge Colindres and myself (Mark Lutter) on how charter cities can make Honduras great.

Contests

Dr. Mark Lutter

The Charter Cities Institute is pleased to announce our Technology Zones White Paper Competition: “Towards a New Regulatory Framework”.

Podcast

Dr. Mark Lutter

This week’s guest on the Charter Cities Podcast is Santiago Gangotena.

Blog Posts

Dr. Mark Lutter

I’m interested in teaching a charter cities course next year so I wrote up this draft syllabus.

Blog Posts

Dr. Mark Lutter

These questions are focused around charter cities and innovative governance.

Book Reviews

Dr. Mark Lutter

A review of Artemis by Andy Weir

Blog Posts

Dr. Mark Lutter

Paul Romer, along with William Nordhaus, just won the Nobel Prize in economics for his work on endogenous growth theory.

Guest Posts

Mischa Spiegelmock

A guest post by Mischa Spiegelmock.

Presentations

Dr. Alain Bertaud

Video lecture on charter cities locations.

Presentations

Tom W Bell

A presentation overview of Ulex.

Updates

Dr. Mark Lutter

A summary of events in the charter cities space in September.

Podcast

Dr. Mark Lutter

Devon Zuegel is a writer and software engineer living in San Francisco.

Blog Posts

Dr. Mark Lutter

The nomination of Brett Kavanuagh to the Supreme Court has ignited an interesting discussion about the rise of the conservative legal movement.

Interviews

Dr. Mark Lutter

An interview with Joe Quirk, President of the Seasteading Institute.

Podcast

Dr. Mark Lutter

A conversation with Lotta Moberg.

Interviews

Dr. Mark Lutter

A conversation with Michael Castle Miller, the Founder and CEO of Politas Consulting.

Podcast

Dr. Mark Lutter

Mwiya Musokotwane is building a new city in Zambia, and raising capital to expand the model throughout Africa.

Blog Posts

Dr. Mark Lutter

One of the most important considerations in building a charter city is location.

Podcast

Dr. Mark Lutter

Paul Collier is a professor of economics and public policy in the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford.

Podcast

Dr. Mark Lutter

The sixth guest for the Charter Cities Podcast is Patrik Schumacher. Patrik is the Principal at Zaha Hadid Architects.

Blog Posts

Dr. Mark Lutter

Wade Shepard, a journalist who writes on new cities has an in Forbes which describes some of the challenges in categorizing new city projects.

Podcast

Dr. Mark Lutter

Our fifth guest for the Charter Cities Podcast is Glen Weyl.

Blog Posts

Dr. Mark Lutter

Last week I attended the World Free Zone Organization’s annual conference in Dubai.

Podcast

Dr. Mark Lutter

In this podcast we have a wide ranging discussion about private governance, liberalism, the origin of the state, and the future of governance.

Blog Posts

Dr. Mark Lutter

The development community is shifting their focus to fragile states. The World Bank doubled their fund for fragile states.

Podcast

Dr. Mark Lutter

An interview with Patri Friedman.

Blog Posts

Dr. Mark Lutter

Hambantota is a port in Southern Sri Lanka of which control was ceded to China in a 99 year lease.

Blog Posts

Dr. Mark Lutter

The New York Times has a very interesting article on ISIS and how they created a bureaucracy to administer their territory and collect taxes.

Interviews

Dr. Mark Lutter

An interview with Preston Mendenhall, the Head of Corporate Affairs for Rendeavour.

Podcast

Dr. Mark Lutter

Kilian Kleinschmidt is a humanitarian and entrepreneur.

Research

Jorge Colindres

The Case of the Honduran ZEDE Regime

Podcast

Dr. Mark Lutter

Mark interviews Tyler Cowen, a Professor of Economics at George Mason University.