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[UPDATE 9/7/12:] Kept in the dark by his Honduran partners, Romer has published an open letter to Honduran president Porfirio Lobo asking him to effectively dissolve the transparency commission of which Romer is chair. He’s asking for permission to resign, in other words. On to the next failing state!
[UPDATE 9/5/12:] The government of Honduras has signed a deal to create the world’s first charter city, although not with Paul Romer. Instead, it has signed an agreement with the for-profit MKG Group, which will invest $15 million in its “model city.” The Associated Press reports two other cities will be created as well, presumably at least one of which will be built along Romer’s lines.
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Fast Company was kind enough to republish my feature on Paul Romer’s charter cities in full. (It originally ran behind the paywall at Next American City back in May.) The story ran last week in three parts — collect them all:
1. Can Importing Well-Run Cities Into Poorly Run Countries Lift The World From Poverty?
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Greg Lindsay is a journalist, urbanist, and speaker. He is a contributing writer for Fast Company and an author of the international bestseller Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next. He is also a visiting scholar at New York University’s Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management, a senior fellow of the World Policy Institute, and a research affiliate of the New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI).
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