this will be a most interesting experiment. if the essentially privately run singapore is any indication, good things will happen.

The government of Honduras has signed a deal with private investors for the construction of 3 privately run cities with their own legal and tax systems.

2017-11-20:

Google is building a small city within Toronto: Toronto has 3 km2 of waterfront property awaiting redevelopment, a huge and prime stretch of land that amounts to one of the best opportunities in North America to rethink at scale how housing, streets and infrastructure are built. The government announced that they were partnering with Sidewalk Labs to develop the site.

Bill Gates is thinking even bigger, a 100 km2 site for a new city near Phoenix that might take advantage of Arizona’s forward thinking rules on self-driving cars.

All over the world, we can see the beginnings of a move from nation-states to smaller, more decentralized and agile communities such as common interest developments, special economic zones and proprietary cities. Your Next Government is Tom W. Bell’s primer on this coming revolution.

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