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Web Resource

• www.ampo.org.  
  Web site of the Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations, the national organization for MPOs. AMPO is mainly oriented toward transportation issues, but the site includes downloadable studies and publications on a range of issues facing metropolitan areas.

• www.metro-region.org. 
  Web site of Portland, Oregon’s Metro, a rare example of a true regional government in the United States; includes the history of Metro’s formation and information on a range of its activities.

• www.narc.org. 
  Web site of the National Association of Regional Councils, an organization of metropolitan planning organizations that seeks to promote cooperation between governments; covers urban, suburban, and rural governments.

• http://www.unc.edu/~fbaum/teaching/PLSC541_Fall08/tiebout_1956.pdf. 
  Charles Tiebout’s 1956 article, “A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures”, published in the Journal of Political Economy in response to the free rider problem in local governance.

• http://www.smartgrowthamerica.org/. 
  Web site of an organization created to research and advocate for “smart growth” in the United States.