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Taxation in Free Cities
Taxes, business environments, sound money and the economic case for jurisdictions that compete for residents.
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- 3books
Private Governance
How Free Cities organise authority, protect property and resolve disputes, from citizen contracts to independent arbitration.
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- 4projects
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- 4books
Bitcoin and Free Cities
Sound money in practice: the bitcoin economies, payment rails and monetary experiments emerging inside Free Cities and special jurisdictions.
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Honduran ZEDEs
Honduras’s Zones for Employment and Economic Development: a far-reaching autonomy framework, and home to Próspera and Ciudad Morazán.
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Technology in New Cities
Smart infrastructure, digital governance and the technologies reshaping how cities are built and run.
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- 10people
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Residency and Citizenship
Residency, mobility and what it means to choose your jurisdiction in a world of competing cities.
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Intentional Communities
Groups living together around shared values: grassroots self-determination within existing states.
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- 10people
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Free Private Cities
Cities whose administration, security and rule of law are run by a private company (the City Operator) under a Citizen Contract, with disputes settled by independent arbitration.
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- 7books
Seasteads
Permanent settlements on the high seas, beyond existing states: a new frontier for voluntary models of governance.
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History of Free Cities
From the Hanseatic League and Italian city-states to the modern renaissance of self-governing territories.
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Special Economic Zones
Business zones with lower taxes and lighter regulation but no real autonomy: a precursor to, but not themselves, Free Cities.
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Micronations
Self-proclaimed states that claim their own territory and full sovereignty without international recognition, from Sealand’s sea fort to Liberland on the Danube.
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Charter Cities
Zones granted their own legislative powers through a charter. Popularised by Paul Romer, they are Free Cities when that charter is freedom-oriented.
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Medical Regulation
Medical freedom, biotech and the longevity research that special jurisdictions like Próspera have made possible.
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Urban Design in New Cities
Architecture, urbanism and the human-scale design of cities: how the built environment of a Free City is planned, shaped and allowed to evolve.
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Network States
Online-first communities, popularised by Balaji Srinivasan, that aim to acquire territory and become self-governing in the physical world.
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Alternative Education
Schooling built outside the state system: home education law, microschools, and the education experiments new jurisdictions make possible.
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Modern City-States
The places already governing themselves at city scale, from a principality owned by one family to a Special Administrative Region of 7 million people.
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Criticism of Free Cities
The serious objections to Free Cities, stated as their critics state them, with what is answerable, what is contested, and what is still genuinely open.
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