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  • This house supports the creation of charter cities in developing nations. (Infoslide: 'Charter Cities' are tracts of uninhabited land set aside by host nations that would be semi-autonomous and administered by a developing third-party government. Citizens of the host nation could move in and out as they so desire. In recent years, Honduras has explored the option of establishing a charter city administered by the Canadian government.)

    Seattle IV 2018 · Open Final · 2018-12-01

  • This house believes that cities should not use investment incentives to attract businesses

    Seattle IV 2017 · Open Quarters · 2018-12-01

  • This house believes that cities should not use investment incentives to attract businesses

    Seattle IV 2017 · Open Quarters · 2018-12-01

  • This house believes that developing countries should adopt economic development policies that limit the migration of people into rapidly developing urban areas.

    Umeko Cup 2018 · Open Octos · 2018-11-16

  • This house would allow city and local governments to be held civilly responsible for deaths that can be ascribed to homelessness.

    Oxford IV 2018 · Open Quarters · 2018-11-09

  • This house believes that the western companies and investors should pull out of the Saudi Arabia's Neom project

    Infoslide

    NEOM is a Saudi project to build a 'Smart' and tourist city on the Red Sea close to the borders of Egypt, Israel, and Jordan. The project aims to attract international investment partly by offering a more competitive and tolerant legal system and environment than the rest of Saudi Arabia. It has been described as an attempt to create an international hub:city such as Dubai or Doha in Saudi. Last week Saudis human rights abuses have been highlighted by the (presumed) brutal assassination of Saudi 'Washington Post' columnist Jamal Khashoggi within the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

    Sofia Open 2018 · 4 · 2018-10-20

  • This house would prohibit slum tourism.

    Infoslide

    Slum tourism is a type of tourism that involves visiting and seeing impoverished areas.

    Icho 2018 · Open Final · 2018-08-08

  • This house believes that local residents should have the right to veto the state permission for self-driving car experiments.

    JPDU Spring Tournament 2018 · Novice Quarters · 2018-04-21

  • That we regret the decline of gaybourhoods.

    Infoslide

    Gaybourhoods are urban areas with generally recognised boundaries that unofficially form a social centre for LGBT people (eg. Castro in San Francisco the Greenwich Village in New York Newtown in Sydney). They are less common and exclusive than has historically been the case.

    Sydney Easters 2018 · 4 · 2018-04-02