How to Grow A City in Honduras, Part I: Governance as Technology

[theworldismine13]

How to Grow A City in Honduras, Part I: Governance as Technology

 

[theworldismine13]

bump

this might be one of the most important stories out right now

 

[TRFG]

sounds like a coup to me.

 

[wheywhey]

I suppose the zones in will help businesses run more efficiently. It is easier to maintain a labor pool when workers have safe living conditions. India has similar self-contained areas where people work and live. I don't expect most citizens will benefit.

Just to speak on education in Honduras, only 43% finish primary school, then only 30% go on to secondary school.

 

[theworldismine13]

Testing Ground
As Honduras considers establishing its first charter city near the Gulf of Fonseca, the farmers, fishermen, and shopkeepers of Amapala brace themselves for potential upheaval.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/09/01/testing_ground_amapala_honduras_charter_cities

 

[wheywhey]

Paul Romer helped popularize charter cities in a TedTalk in 2009. For some reason his follow-up 2011 TedTalk made me think that the mass migration of Central American children was done on purpose to get international approval for charter cities. I noticed that when this idea was mentioned on The Coli two years ago it generated more conversation.
http://www.thecoli.com/threads/honduras-signs-deal-to-create-private-cities.42234/



At the end of this interview when Paul Romer is asked if charter cities will work in Haiti, he goes .