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The founders aim to make a modern day “Renaissance Florence”. (Getty / Illustration by Alison Bushor)
A company with funding from a Peter Thiel–backed venture capital fund wants folks to pack up and start a semi-autonomous city.
Bluebook Cities is looking for 2,000 people selected based upon applications to “settle” its charter city, according to the New York Post. The company said it is “building the city that Silicon Valley deserves.”
The concept of the charter city was conceived by Nobel Prize–winning economist Paul Romer, who used Hong Kong as an example. It’s essentially a semi-autonomous municipality operating outside its host country’s regulatory system.