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Rural and Urban Governments: What's the Difference?

Compare and contrast urban and rural municipal governments and decide whether or not a growing rural community would benefit from changing to an urban municipal government.

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Title:	xtimeline
Host:	Famento Inc.
Description:	This website contains a tool for creating, sharing and discussing timelines. Users may explore existing timelines, create their own timelines and share and discuss timelines with others.
Navigation Tips:	Click on Explore to view existing timelines. Users must create an account with an e-mail address and a password in order to create timelines by clicking on, “Create a timeline.” Click on Sign up to create a new account.
URL:	http://www.appvita.com/2009/04/24/xtimeline-explore-and-create-free-timelines/

Title:	City Hall School
Host:	City of Edmonton
Description:	This website contains a listing of teacher resources for the City of Edmonton related to local government, including activities, activity guides, resources, worksheets and answer keys.
Navigation Tips:	Click on applicable resources under Activity Guides.
URL:	http://www.edmonton.ca/attractions_events/city_hall/city-hall-school.aspx

Title:	Municipal Profiles
Host:	Alberta Municipal Affairs
Description:	This website contains information regarding Alberta’s municipalities.
Navigation Tips:	Use the Name field to search pull up a PDF on the municipality you would like information on.
URL:	http://www.municipalaffairs.alberta.ca/mc_municipal_profiles.cfm