The Charter Cities concept takes hold in Honduras, but what role will architects play?
This vibrant image depicts a few hundred metres of lush green foliage in the Honduran Rainforests, acres upon acres of verdant flora growing up over the region’s rolling hills; beautiful scenery that masks a plethora of underlying urban issues. The political problems in Honduras are well known. A republic in Central America, Honduras has been tested by turbulent politics and spiralling levels of crime that have thrown a painful percentage of its population into crippling poverty. The road to recovery appears to have no end. One man is campaigning for a new direction. Paul Romer is a Professor of Economics at the NYU Stern School of Business and in 2009 he presented the concept of Charter Cities at a TED event. Romer suggests that a plethora of regions like Honduras could benefit from the construction of new cities on unused land, governed by an entirely independent political syst

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