Research

Optimizing the City

August 24, 2021

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.

Lazarus Chok

Deconflicting Critical Minerals With Charter Cities

August 3, 2020

July 13, 2021

Improving the Lives of Congolese Citizens and Creating a Stable and Ethical Source for Critical Minerals

Carl Peterson

Research Co-Authoring Program

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

The Honduran ZEDE Law, from Ideation to Action

August 13, 2019

CCI's first academic publication on Honduras' charter cities law.

Jeffrey Mason

How Charter Cities Can Create Better Refugee Responses

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

Lessons for Charter Cities From Decades as a City Manager in the US

November 12, 2020

Mark Levin offers lessons for charter cities from his four decades of experience in city management.

Mark Levin

Building Radical Charter Cities

July 7, 2020

July 8, 2020

Paul Healy and Matt Prewitt detail three RadicalxChange policies for improving charter city governance.

Paul Healy

The Case for Charter Cities Within the Effective Altruist Framework

August 13, 2019

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.

Jeffrey Mason

Make Honduras Great

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

Democratic Compliance: A Charter City’s Obligations Under International Law

August 14, 2019

April 11, 2018

The Case of the Honduran ZEDE Regime

Jorge Colindres