Title: Cities, not Camps

Author: Günter Nooke

Abstract

The chapter "Cities, Not Camps" emphasizes the importance of new cities as an alternative way to provide people with prospects and opportunities for their own development. Instead of confining migrants who are willing and able to work in camps and feeding them from the outside, it emphasizes the endogenous growth forces in new, self-contained settlements if the security of people and investments can be guaranteed.

The chapter describes the complex challenges that Europe and Germany face due to their own legal foundations, especially because migrant workers are treated in the same way as politically persecuted people seeking asylum. On the one hand, reference is made to successful city foundations in history, to their prerequisites, special drivers of progress and innovation. On the other hand, it shows why and under what circumstances new cities could be a meaningful solution to the problem of mass migration today. The chapter describes five different city models and uses six parameters for comparison to assess their respective performance in a diamond diagram.”

Keywords

Planned cities; New cities; camps; Levites, Magdeburg Law; Endogenous growth; Economic development; Asylum seekers; Migrant workers; Migration; Uncontrolled immigration; Schengen Area; Geneva Refugee Convention; Germany; German citizenship; UN; EU; UNHCR; Angela Merkel; Paul Romer; Income opportunities; Repatriation; FDI; Western democracies; Special economic zones; Affordable housing; Sustainable development zones; Extraterritoriality; Free private cities; Charter cities; Urban concepts; Classification; Comparison; Parameters of comparison; Western Sahara; New Gaz City; Free Global Cities; Free Global City