# Charter Cities Institute The **Charter Cities Institute** is a U.S. nonprofit founded in 2017 by [[Mark Lutter]] to promote the [[Charter City]]: a new city with its own legal and regulatory system. It publishes research, advises governments and developers, and connects the investors and operators working on such projects. Its work reaches both ends of the movement. In Nigeria it is a partner of [[Itana]], a digital free zone in Lagos. In the United States it joined the [[Frontier Foundation]] and the [[American Enterprise Institute]] in 2025 to promote Donald Trump's [[Freedom Cities]] and published a policy paper recommending federal legislation to authorize them. ## Why it's on the map The institute is the policy shop that makes privately governed cities sound like ordinary development economics, and a link between the charter-city projects abroad and the push to create them on American federal land. > [!note] Stub > This is a short entry that hasn't been fully written yet. ## See Also - [[Charter City]] - [[Freedom Cities Coalition]] - [[Network State Experiments Roster]]