1960s urban planners.
Never before in history had there been a profession as infested with snake-oil peddling, arrogant, hucksters.
70 years later numerous cities all around the world are still dealing with the echoes of their concrete monstrosities, err, monstrocities.
A famous and skilled surgeon suffering from the most deeply entrenched and severe god complex known to medicine would take one look at the lot of them and say "god damn you got me beat".