Our research serves to establish the economic, legal, and moral arguments for charter cities. Research topics include urbanization, special economic zones, effective altruism, private governance, and more.
October 29, 2021
Barefoot planning proposes to dynamically organize private development and public goods without a static master plan by employing barefoot planners, a new class of community-level planning practitioners.
October 22, 2021
The CCI Summer Fellowship exposes participants to academic and real-life urban discourse. This document, through several Project Briefs, overviews the proposed projects of the 2021 CCI Fellows.
August 3, 2020
October 18, 2021
By adopting the innovative governance system offered by the charter cities model, the DRC can not only address its development challenges, but would also demonstrate that it can also deliver on bold and innovative models of economic development for its people.
Carl Peterson
September 29, 2021
A charter city operated via a public-private partnership at the Port of Berbera, Somaliland will substantially increase the positive impacts of Somaliland’s already effective national development strategy.
August 24, 2021
Curiously, some cities have, over time, become better at preparing for crises, while others have not. This paper explores how to optimize cities for crises, as well as growth, learning, and other seismic changes.
July 13, 2021
Improving the Lives of Congolese Citizens and Creating a Stable and Ethical Source for Critical Minerals
September 27, 2019
June 2, 2021
The Charter Cities Institute (CCI) accepts submissions for research paper ideas related to charter cities and innovative urban governance.
Kurtis Lockhart
August 13, 2019
CCI's first academic publication on Honduras' charter cities law.
Jeffrey Mason
April 20, 2021
In a world with increasing numbers of forcibly displaced persons, this paper explores how charter cities can generate more effective responses to refugee movements and place refugee and local community needs firmly at the center of local governance.
Sarah Doyel
November 12, 2020
Mark Levin offers lessons for charter cities from his four decades of experience in city management.
Mark Levin
July 7, 2020
July 8, 2020
Paul Healy and Matt Prewitt detail three RadicalxChange policies for improving charter city governance.
Paul Healy
September 23, 2019
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.
August 14, 2019
February 4, 2019
We have a new working paper by Jorge Colindres and myself (Mark Lutter) on how charter cities can make Honduras great.
Jorge Colindres
April 11, 2018
The Case of the Honduran ZEDE Regime
