Intentional Communities: An Introduction
Choose your preferred languageEnglishDeutschPortuguês EspañolFrançaisItalianoWhat Are Intentional Communities An intentional community is, in the words of G. Kozeny, “a group of people who have chosen to live together...
Spreading the Message at LibertyCon Europe
Recently, the Free Cities Foundation took part in LibertyCon in Lisbon, the annual conference organized by European Students for Liberty. With over 600 attendees, the event was a great opportunity to connect with...
Zuzalu: A Pop-up City on the Mediterranean
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Live More Freely in Latin America
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Vote With Your Feet, Build Communities, And Shape Your Own Reality
When confronted with limitations, we have two options: remain in the situation or leave it. We can create a fresh start on our terms, using the adversity to build resilience and forge a brighter future.Disclaimer: The...
Are Network States Free Cities?
Free Cities are such a new concept that they are still in the process of being defined in practice. As a result, there are many questions about which existing cities, communities, or territories can be called Free...
The Adventure of Building a Free City
Free Cities are the new frontier. There can hardly be anything more adventurous than exploring the exciting possibilities, the mystery of the unknown, and the immense promise and potential that Free Cities bring with...
The Scarcest Resource in the World
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Taxes Are the Price We Pay for Not Living in a Civilized Society
During tax season, many people will be trying to provide you with practical ways to lower your tax bill and mitigate your potential exposure to both tax payments and tax reporting. Instead of repeating such advice, I...
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Free Private Cities
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In current political systems, the actions of both rulers and the governed are shaped by wrong incentives. Rulers have no liability and face no economic disadvantage if they make poor decisions. The governed are made to believe that “free” benefits can come into existence through the power of their votes. This politicizes the state monopoly on force and leads to constant changes to the “social contract” and an endless struggle to influence the direction of this change.
Free Private Cities
by Titus Gebel
Titus Gebel’s book, Free Private Cities: Making Governments Compete for You, presents the theoretical framework for creating Free Cities, drawing lessons from past and present autonomous cities and outlining a model for building a Free City in the real world.
Free Private Cities represent one of the few non-totalitarian alternatives to the majoritarian political systems adopted by most Western nation-states. Once the idea of a viable freedom-oriented alternative system is in people’s minds, it won’t go away again. That is why it is so important to spread the concept. Free Private Cities also provide an opportunity for developing and emerging countries to catch up more quickly and can contribute to easing the migration crisis.
Road to Liberty
Short Stories Book
In 2020, the Free Cities Foundation announced a short story writing competition, in which we asked writers to imagine what it would be like to live in a Free Private City and about the opportunities and challenges one might encounter.
Over a hundred stories were written and submitted from all around the world. We have compiled the best stories in this book and hope to inspire more people to join our movement that seeks to revolutionize the market of living together.
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29/11/2022 Mises Institute: Liberty in Our Lifetime – Lessons from Prague
27/11/2022 Bitcoin Magazine: Finding Liberty in Parallel – Bitcoin and the Free Cities Movement
12/07/2022 What Bitcoin Did: Free Cities Foundation with Peter Young
13/03/2022 Wake Up Podcast by Aleks Svetski: Free Private Cities with Titus Gebel and Peter Young
03/03/2022 The Sean Morgan Report: Bitcoin City and The Future of Economic Liberty with Peter Young
25/02/2022 The Bitcoin Reserve Show: Free Private Cities & Bitcoin with Peter Young
19/11/2021 Are American Cities Ready for Special Economic Zones? by Scott Beyer
28/10/2021 Titus Gebel Interview with The Billion Dollar Secret
26/10/2021 Peter Young talks to John Vallis about Bitcoin Citadels and Free Private Cities
23/10/2021 Bitcoin Stories: Alex Voss, Tipolis, Free Private Cities
15/10/2021 Bitcoin, Bitcoiners and Citadels
16/09/2021 Satoshi’s Sidewalk #25: Free Private Cities
14/09/2021 Prospectus On Próspera
20/08/2021 Jimmy Song’s Bitcoin Fixes This Podcast: Austrian Economics with Rahim Taghizadegan
7/07/2021 The Urban Environment and Society – ft Marthinus Grobler and Rahim Taghizadegan
30/06/2021 What a Free Private City of the (not so distant) Future Will Look Like by Joe Jarvis
28/06/2021 Unsustainable Cities: Is Bitcoin the Answer? ft Kelly Lannan & Rahim Taghizadegan
1/06/2021 How Free Private Cities could lift millions out of poverty by William Markus
17/05/2021 Rahim Taghizadegan appearance on Saifedean Ammous’ The Bitcoin Standard Podcast
21/04/2021 Free Private Cities in Practice: Interview with Titus Gebel
22/02/2021 Free Private Cities – there is an alternative article in The Daily Telegraph
20/05/2020 Private Cities Are a Needed Experiment by Scott Beyer
03/09/2019 Mises Institute What We can learn from Liechtenstein
31/08/2019 FEE Can Private Cities help solve the Refugee Crisis?
23/08/2019 Austrian Economics Center A Rethink in Governance is Necessary
18/7/2019 Anarchitecture Free Private Cities | Titus Gebel Interview
17/5/2019. Freedom Today Network Free private cities can revolutionise the way we live together
13/5/2019 Freedom Today Network Free Private Cities – There is an Alternative
22/5/2019 Startup Grind Geneva Titus Gebel (Free Private Cities)
29/3/2019 Mises Institute Can Free Private Cities Replace the State?
24/3/2019 Lockechain Free Private Cities
06/11/2018 GlintPay Civil service provider: Building the world’s first free private cities
29/10/2018 Julio Alejandro Building a Tech Smart City
25/10/2018 Yosee Zero to 1: Private Governance as a Service
30/08/2018 Bitcoin Exchange Guide Ulex And The Concept Of Free Private Cities
21/8/2018 The Seasteading Institute Landsteading? Read “Free Private Cities” by Titus Gebel
9/7/2018 Mises Institute Private Cities: A Model for a Truly Free Society?
27/4/2018 Citylab The Floating City, Long a Libertarian Dream, Faces Rough Seas
3/4/2018 Tom Woods Show Private Cities: Another Path to a Free Society?
30/3/2018 Svobospol Free Private Cities will have no parliament or prince who can change the rules
30/3/2018 Svobospol Soukromé město nebude mít parlament, který by měnil pravidla každý den
19/1/2018 Anarchast Free Private Cities Coming To A Town Near You with Titus Gebel
20/11/2017 Acton Institute Start-up nations: Are ‘floating cities’ a frontier for freedom?
4/8/2017 Jacobite Magazine Why Liechtenstein Works
14/7/2017 The Daily Bell 5 Private City Projects That You Should Know About
5/6/2017 Adventures Guatemala Paseo Cayala – private city built to escape crime
10/5/2017 Laissez Faire Books Mu Aye Pu: Live Stateless in Southeast Asia?
13/2/2017 Startup Societies Foundation Titus Gebel: Free Private Cities
12/10/2016 Free Cities Podcast Free Private Cities
22/4/2016 Foundation for Economic Education Private Cities: A Path to Liberty
6/4/2016 CapX Private Cities – a disruptive technology for the state Market
25/3/2016 Philosophy Workout Live Free In Private Cities
14/8/2013 FEE Want to Own a City?
28/5/2013 FEE The Man Who Outsourced the Government
26/2/2013 ZDNet Can ‘charter cities’ help abolish global poverty?
16/04/2023 Welt am Sonntag: Ein Privatstaat namens Wohlstand
05/02/2023 ARD Weltspiegel: Próspera – Privatstadt unter Palmen
13/12/2022 Der Sandwirt: Rückbesinnung auf die örtliche Gemeinschaft
12/12/2022 Fit For Future: Freie Privatstädte – Dr. Titus Gebel im Interview
11/12/2022 Der Freydenker: Freie Privatstädte – Utopia nur für Reiche oder Rettung für die Armen?
01/12/2022 Schweizer Monat: Wer Machtmissbrauch verhindern will, muss die Macht begrenzen
01/12/2022 Schweizer Monat: Freier Leben
09/11/2022 Der Sandwirt: Der einzige Ausweg: Parallelstrukturen schaffen
03/11/2022 Deutschlandfunk: Utopie oder Dystopie? Honduras und das Modell der Privatstädte
22/10/2022 Kontrafunk: Irrlichter und Fixsterne – Matthias Burchardt im Gespräch mit Titus Gebel
14/10/2022 Mises Karma: Parallele Strukturen für den Fortschritt – Im Gespräch mit Titus Gebel
24/07/2022 Der Freydenker: Free Cities: Eine Chance für Expats?
22/04/2022 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Stadt ohne Staat
02/12/2021 Der Freydenker: Liberty Interviews – Titus Gebel
16/10/2021 Tichy Einblick: Ein Europa aus tausend Liechtensteins
24/09/2021 MisesDE: Mehr Wettbewerb im wichtigsten Markt der Welt
08/09/2021 Blocktrainer: Freie Privatstädte
19/08/2021 Neue Zürcher Zeitung: Auch beim Bauen wird um die richtige moralische Haltung gekämpft
08/08/2021 EinUndZwanzig: Freie Privatstädte mit Titus Gebel
24/04/2021 be[in]crypto: Interview – “Was ihr innerhalb dieses Systems macht, ist euch überlassen”
13/04/2021 Mises Karma: Freie Privatstädte – Im Gespräch mit Titus Gebel
10/02/2021 MisesDE: Freie Privatstädte als Weiterentwicklung von Sonderwirtschaftszonen
11/09/2020 Achgut: So klappt es vielleicht doch noch mit dem Liberalismus
01/07/2020 TomTalksTime: Freie Privatstädte. Eine echte Alternative?
25/05/2020 MisesDE: Honduras: Es geht los!
09/04/2020 indubio: Honduras und New York
01/04/2020 MisesDE: Coronavirus – Was würde eine freie Privatstadt tun?
01/11/2019 Achgut: Neue Ideen für Afrika: Sonderzonen statt Dead Aid
14/10/2019 MisesDE: In der Politik findet man heute eher Blender als echte Problemlöser
18/07/2019 Immobilien Zeitung: “Wir wollen uns nicht reinreden lassen”
05/05/2019 Freiheitslexikon: Seasteading
12/04/2019 MisesDE: Können Freie Privatstädte den Staat ersetzen?
27/03/2019 Smart Investor SIW 13/2019: Die große Unbekannte
12/03/2019 Convent: Stadtentwicklung und Städtebau vor neuen Herausforderungen
14/01/2019 Freiheitslexikon: Privatstädte
23/11/2018 Tichys Einblick: Die Zukunft? Sie haben die Wahl
11/10/2018 Mikroökonomen.de: Neue Regeln für neue Städte?
01/10/2018 Schweizer Monat: Markt des Zusammenlebens
29/08/2018 Frank Schäffler.de: Freie Privatstädte – Mehr Wettbewerb im wichtigsten Markt der Welt
21/08/2018 The European: Ein Vorschlag für eine alternative Ordnung
06/07/2018 Ortner Online: Buchtip “Freie Privatstädte”
30/06/2018 Achgut: Privatstädte: Gehen wir zurück auf Anfang
29/05/2018 Achgut: Vertrag zwischen Staat und Bürger? Hier das Kleingedruckte
25/04/2018 Achgut: Eine Welt aus tausend Liechtensteins?
17/12/2017 Wirtschaftswoche: Wenn das Leben ohne Staat möglich wird
10/06/2017 Neue Zürcher Zeitung: Privatstadt heisst die neue Heimat
15/02/2017 Prometheus Institut: Von Freien Reichsstädten zu Freien Privatstädten
8/07/2016 MisesDE: „Freie Privatstädte können alles besser“
21/06/2016 Neue Zürcher Zeitung: Sind Sie ein Untertan?
27/11/2015 Staatenlos: Frei leben in Private Cities
25/11/2015 Prometheus Institut: Europa entwickeln mit Sonderzonen
04/05/2022 Podcast Chaos Panejado #60: Charter cities e cidades privadas
14/10/2021 exame-com: Próspera, a cidade-estado liberal em Honduras governada por uma empresa
31/08/2019 Mises Journal Da Governança Surge um Mercado
14/08/2019 Instituto Liberal Cidades Privadas Livres poderiam substituir o Estado?
12/08/2019 Cidades Empresariais Panarquia e Cidades Empresariais
6/8/2019 Ideias Radicais Cidades Privadas: um caminho para a liberdade
6/8/2019 Resenha pra Mim Cidades Livres Privadas — Titus Gebel
31/7/2019 Vox Brasilis Cidades Privadas – Um novo lugar pra chamar de lar
30/7/2019 Gazeta Libertária Viva Livre em Cidades Privadas
25/10/2018 Yosee Zero to 1: Private Governance as a Service
5/9/2018 Cidades Empresariais O Futuro da Governança é Privado
29/11/2022 Mises Institute: Libertad en nuestro tiempo de vida – Lecciones desde Praga
24/11/2022 La Tribuna: Exitoso FinTech Summit de Prospera atrae decenas de emprendedores a Roatan
23/12/2020 Instituto de Ciencia Política: Ciudades Privadas Libres: El futuro del Liberalismo
29/09/2020 Instituto de Ciencia Política: Ciudades privadas son un experimento necesario
29/03/2019 Mises Institute: Pueden las ciudades libres privadas reemplazar al Estado?
09/03/2019 Mises Institute: Lo que podemos aprender de Liechtenstein
09/7/2018 Mises Institute: Ciudades privadas: ¿Un modelo para una sociedad verdaderamente libre?