@DanielS37186833@BauhausMovement Bauhaus aside, both the Nazis and Stalin rejected modernist architecture and contemporary art—much as Trump favors neoclassicism. The aesthetic preferences of authoritarian, centralized power are not hard to see.
@JRUrbaneNetwork It’s easy to deliver infrastructure at this pace when your city council simply rubber-stamps every budget, public debt exceeds 150% of fiscal resources, and over 20% of infrastructure spending is lost to rent-seeking.