In 1972 David Crombie was running for mayor of Toronto. His slogan was "Small is beautiful". All the progressives, young and old, were behind him. He won by landslide. His tenure was one of the most successful in the history of the city. He and his entourage understood the meaning of "sustainable development" perfectly. The city government and the OMB did not crumble in front of the greedy developers. No one needed more and more condo projects so that they could get rich by flipping them. Development was orderly, respectful of the citizens' properties and wishes and manageable. There was hardly a "housing crisis" because migration to Toronto was also reasonable. No one thought that we needed a concrete jungle to house more people in the downtown core in order to increase the city's tax revenue exponentially to be spent politician salaries, city bureaucracy and unions and dubious projets.  The city was in harmony, with no envious "critics" pitting citizens against one another.