You picked a very good anecdote because it was precisely the era of governments razing entire neighbourhoods to arbitrarily build highways without the support of the locals who lived there that induced the backlash in the 70s against top down government planning.

Basically government poisoned the well itself and has still yet to really deal with the consequences.

Now things have gone too far, what was once local activism has been taken over by established wealth interests, and development is paralyzed.