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 cities are evident of attempts for Haussmanesque transformations and plans of war, the Fascists in Germany, Italy, and Russia were unable to fully execute a complete concrete embodiment of their political system largely due to interruptions in construction during the Second World War. In Washington D.C the construction of neoclassical buildings such as the White House and the Supreme Court building were not attempts to renew or change the city's layout by demolishing older historical buildings because it was planned by George Washington 's architect Pierre Charles L'Enfant in 1791, and therefore only required filling in space in the city instead of demolishing old architecture and attempting to construct something like Germania or the Soviet Palace. The construction of neoclassical monuments were essential for the stimulation of the population into a renewed sense of patriotism and confidence in their nation. Schivelbusch uses the example of neoclassical monumentalism to underscore how the same stylistic, formal, and technological developments are used to serve ostensibly different political systems. This can be equated with the manner in which propaganda was utilized in all three systems. .
Architectural power was utilized as a form of propaganda by which "charismatic leadership, circumventing intermediary social and political institutions like parliaments, parties, and interest groups, gains direct hold upon the masses". In the United States head of the National Recovery Administration, Hugh Johnson implemented the symbol of the Blue Eagle to pressure businesses into complying with the agency's code. The Blue Eagle campaign was effective in assembling the masses to display a visible symbol of support.
