Comment by Tiktaalik

yeah that is true.

It's a challenging thing to come down on in a clear cut simple way because there were a lot of things that that generation did fight against with grass roots neighbourhood democratic protest that are agreeable, such as fighting against razing neighbourhoods for freeway expansion.

The problem is that along the way somehow local citizens having a voice in how their city changes became a veto over development, and that veto became one dominated by those that had the most time to participate and dominate discussion, which were older, established wealthy, landowning residents. We didn't and still haven't developed systems for genuine real equitable participatory city making though I would like to think in recent years we are slowly making progress.