Photographer Documents Infrastructure Development at Honduras' Próspera Charter City
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Ben Dreith
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Summary
Brooklyn-based writer Sam Venis documents Próspera, a semi-autonomous "charter city" in Honduras that operates as a political and economic experiment with special legal and tax frameworks. The article focuses on Venis's photographic documentation of the infrastructure development, including upcoming buildings designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, while examining the controversial nature of this private governance model and its implications for local communities and sovereignty.
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where UK studio Zaha Hadid Architects has designed upcoming buildings
So far, the images show only a few new buildings on the site, which includes two sections on the island
one relatively undeveloped and another preexisting resort – both owned by the Próspera
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