FRONTIER CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY P OLICY S ERIES No. 201 / SEPTEMBER 2017 INTER-MUNICIPAL CO-OPERATION AND REFORM: MUNICIPAL AMALGAMATIONS BY WENDELL COX AND AILIN HE FRONTIER CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY I I deas that change your world / www.fcpp.org 1 FRONTIER CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY WENDELL COX Wendell Cox is a Senior Fellow with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. Cox is Principal of Demographia, an international consultancy based in St. Louis, Missouri, specializing in regional and municipal housing policy and related planning issues. He is co-author of the annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Index, which is in its 13th edition and is sponsored in Canada by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. He is also author of Demographia World Urban Areas, an annual publication that estimates the population, land area and population density of all urban areas in the world with 500,000 or more population. A former member of the Los Angeles Transportation Commission and the Amtrak Reform Council, Mr. Cox has consulted extensively on urban and transportation issues. He holds a BA in Government from California State University in Los Angeles and an MBA from Pepperdine University in Los Angeles. AILIN HE Ailin He is a PhD student in Economics at McGill University. She has a Master of Arts in Economics from Clemson University in South Carolina and a Bachelor of Arts in Translation and Interpretation from Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China. FRONTIER CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY 203-2727 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada R3J 0R2 Tel: 204-957-1567 Email:
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