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Sandy Springs, Georgia: The City that Outsourced Everything

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While cities across the country are cutting services, raising taxes and contemplating bankruptcy, something extraordinary is happening in a suburban community just north of Atlanta, Georgia. Since incorporating in 2005, Sandy Springs has improved its services, invested tens of millions of dollars in infrastructure and kept taxes flat. And get this: Sandy Springs has no Read More
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The Man Who Outsourced the Government | Foundation for Economic Education

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Oliver Porter created and implemented the public-private partnership (PPP) model for Sandy Springs, Ga.—a city of 100,000 people near Atlanta. He has served as the principal advisor for many other new cities and for cities considering the conversion to the PPP model, both in the United States and Japan. He has authored three books on Read More

Proprietary community – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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A ‘”village”‘ is distinguished from a loose group of individuals by an integrative system of organization that establishes both individual, private resources and common, public resources, and that organizes the activities required for the community’s continuity. A proprietary village'” is a special type of community in which a single owner leases units to multiple tenants. Read More

Private Cities 101 | Foundation for Economic Education

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The 21st century will be the century of cities. Over the next 30 years, 1.8 billion people are expected to move to cities in developing countries. While some will add to existing cities, others will migrate to small towns, transforming them into the megapolises of tomorrow. Shenzhen, for example, was a small fishing village of Read More

▶ “Startup Cities,” Honduras, and Experiments in Freedom. Professor Tom W. Bell Talks With Reason.

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“I often hear friends of liberty, classical liberals, libertarians say bad things about democracy, and I understand why,” says Tom W. Bell. “It’s not very good at building programs. But it is good at getting rid of things. In a ‘corrective democracy,’ people only vote against particular laws.” Bell, a law professor at Chapman University Read More

The Voluntary City: Choice, Community and Civil Society

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Published by EH.NET (November 2002) David T. Beito, Peter Gordon, and Alexander Tabarrok, editors, The Voluntary City: Choice, Community and Civil Society. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002. xiii + 462 pp. $65 (cloth), ISBN: 0-472-11240-6; $24.95 (paperback), ISBN: 0-472-08837-8. Reviewed for EH.NET by Richard Lester, Department of History, University of Missouri-Columbia. The Voluntary Read More
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Gurgaon – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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This article is about the municipality (city) in India. For others, see Gurgaon district. Gurgaon (/ˈgʊrgaʊŋ/) is a leading financial and industrial city of India, situated in the National Capital Region near the Indian capital New Delhi in the state of Haryana. Located 19.9 miles (32 km) south-west of New Delhi, Gurgaon has a population of Read More
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India’s Voluntary City

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Fascinating piece in the NYTimes about a new city in India, a new city of 1.5 million people and more or less no city government. Gurgaon was widely regarded as an economic wasteland. In 1979, the state of Haryana created Gurgaon by dividing a longstanding political district on the outskirts of New Delhi. One half Read More
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How to Grow a City in Honduras, Part IV: Citizens as Shareholders

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Honduras is one of the poorest countries in Central and South America. It has the highest murder rate in the world, almost double the next closest contender. It’s a place ravaged by the drug trade and political instability, where as recently as 2009 the military ousted a president pushing to modify the constitution in order Read More
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How to Grow A City in Honduras, Part III: The Skeptics – YouTube

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Honduras is one of the poorest countries in Central and South America. It has the highest murder rate in the world, almost double the next closest contender. It’s a place ravaged by the drug trade and political instability, where as recently as 2009 the military ousted a president pushing to modify the constitution in order Read More
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How to Grow A City in Honduras, Part II: Company Towns

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Honduras is one of the poorest countries in Central and South America. It has the highest murder rate in the world, almost double the next closest contender. It’s a place ravaged by the drug trade and political instability, where as recently as 2009 the military ousted a president pushing to modify the constitution in order Read More
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▶ How to Grow A City in Honduras, Part I: Governance as Technology

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Honduras is one of the poorest countries in Central and South America. It has the highest murder rate in the world, almost double the next closest contender. It’s a place ravaged by the drug trade and political instability, where as recently as 2009 the military ousted a president pushing to modify the constitution in order Read More