Political Science City Planning & Urban Development
The Tiny Perfect Mayor
David Crombie and Toronto's reform alderman
- Publisher
- James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1974
- Category
- City Planning & Urban Development
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780888620712
- Publish Date
- Jan 1974
- List Price
- $45.00
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Description
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 issueshousing, 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.
About the author
Joe Caulfield is in the Division of Social Sciences, York University, and author of City Form and Everyday Life: Toronto's Gentrification and Critical Social Practice.
