As a "unionized hack", I understand completely Palladio's aversion to having public officials accountable for building design. For that matter, let's go all the way to ensuring that "unionized hacks" can't decide building uses, massing, or any other element of city-building. For that matter, let's get them out of transportation planning and health care as well.
After all, Toronto has abundant evidence of non-unionized hacks deciding the aesthetics of buildings, of which a subway trip up to North York Centre will be sufficient evidence of what they and the mystic "market" will dictate.
I find your freqent references to "unionized hacks" offensive.