I watched a documentary about Jane Jacobs the other night, a woman who was involved in saving a neighbourhood I used to live in. I now live in a neighbourhood t

I watched a documentary about Jane Jacobs the other night, a woman who was involved in saving a neighbourhood I used to live in. I now live in a neighbourhood that was grazed (thankfully not razed) by similar development attempts and the city is now looking into restoring its former vibrance by undoing the damage that was done. It should be clear from my sentiments that I should be screaming the virtues of the vetocracy and the evils of bulldozer politics, but I'm not. The reality is that these two poles have very different visions. Maligning one over the other, may it be with the term "bulldozer" or "veto", fails to appreciate that. It papers over that one side scaffolds their fear of the unknown with one set of arguments and the other side veils their ignorance of the consequences of their actions with another set of arguments.