Author : Jon Caulfield
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780888620705
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (27 download)
Book Synopsis The Tiny Perfect Mayor by : Jon Caulfield
Download or read book The Tiny Perfect Mayor written by Jon Caulfield and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 1974-01-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When David Crombie won his surprise victory in the 1972 mayoralty race in Toronto, everyone thought it was a victory for citizen activism and for a saner approach to urban development. Was it? This book examines Crombie's performance on a range of major issues--housing, highrises, downtown development, environmental matters, Toronto Island, subways and expressways. Caulfield contends that despite the efforts of a cadre of committed reform-oriented civic politicians, Crombie's mayoralty largely buttressed the status quo and the old-guard politicians he fought so hard to defeat in the first place. The Tiny Perfect Mayor is a pointed, critical examination of one of Canada's most prominent civic politicians of the 1970s.