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[email protected]. Meiropolitan Governmeni: Minnesota's Experiment with a Metropolitan Council [E]xisting governments have little relation to the region as such, which in organizational terms is amorphous and un- crystallized. The metropolitan area has no capital, courthouse, or city hall, no corporate existence, no body, no soul, no sense of being, indeed no being in any concrete meaning of the term. Al Smith was from the sidewalks of New York, not from the sidewalks of the New York-Northeastern New Jersey Standard Consolidated Area. Davenport-Rock Island-Moline is not a place name but a shelter designed to afford the statistician refuge from political fallout.' I. INTRODUCTION Relocations in population, industry, finance, and racial bal- ances have created metropolitan problems of staggering magni- tude.2 The great needs for more and better housing, transporta- tion, crime prevention, sanitation, pollution control, recreation and education programs have motivated governmental responses from many levels.