Schivelbusch expresses that both the revolutionary states of Bolshevism and fascism as well as the reformist ones of the capitalist democracies, needed an architecture that would tower on behalf of, but also above, the people like a temple, inspiring trust, respect, and a quasi-religious sense of deeper meaning and community while at the same time showing the rest of the world who it was dealing with. Though The Hall of People in Berlin, the construction and expansion of roads and thoroughfares, and the implementation of state measures to control hygiene and traffic, militaristic planning of c...
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