Liberty and Free Cities
ABSTRACT
We reviewed the role that "free cities" have played in the development of liberty as well as the prospects for the creation of "free cities" in the world today.
READING LIST
Conference Readings
Glasze, George, Chris Webster, and Klaus Frantz, eds. Private Cities: Global and Local Perspectives. London and New York: Routledge, 2006.
Chart "Hong Kong, Singapore, China, India, Indonesia & Taiwan Per Capita GDP Relative to US (%)" showing trends from 1820 to 2002. Author: Robert H. Nelson.
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Friedman, Patri and Brad Taylor. “The Seasteading Institutional Evolution.” The Association of Private Enterprise Education Conference, Nassau, The Bahamas, April 10-12, 2011.
Frug, Gerald E. City Making: Building Communities Without Building Walls. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999.
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Hyatt, Wayne S. “Common Interest Communities: Evolution and Reinvention.” John Marshall Law Review (Winter 1998): 305-316.
Kotkin, Joel. The City: A Global History. New York: Modern Library, 2006.
McKenzie, Evan. Beyond Privatopia: Rethinking Residential Private Government. Washington: The Urban Institute Press, 2011.
Nelson, Robert H. Private Neighborhoods and the Transformation of Local Government. Washington: Urban Institute Press, 2005.
Pollock, Frederick. The Land Laws. Littleton: Fred B. Rothman and Co., 1979 reprint of 1896.
Read, Benjamin L. “Assessing Variation in Civil Society Organizations: China’s Homeowner Associations in Comparative Perspective.” Comparative Political Studies (2008 September): 1240-1265.
Romer, Paul. “Charter Cities Concept Paper.” Charter Cites. http://chartercities.org/concept (January 31, 2012).
Romer, Paul. “Technology, Rules and Progress: The Case for Charter Cities.” Center for Global Development Essay, www.cgdev.org, March 2010.
Teaford, Jon C. The Municipal Revolution in America: Origins of Modern Urban Government, 1650-1825. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1975.