Trump's plan to build 10 new American cites is a right-wing dream of 'trad havens for beautiful families,' the internet's favorite architecture critic says

Thu, 03/23/2023 - 05:00

Police officers stand in front of the U.S. Supreme Court during the 50th annual March for Life rally on January 20, 2023 in Washington, DC. — As president, Donald Trump signed an executive order making classical architecture the preferred style for federal buildings and called modernist architecture "ugly and inconsistent."
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Architecture critic Kate Wagner says Trump's plan to build "freedom cities" is nothing new.
She argues Trump is pushing a right-wing "aesthetic culture war" against urbanism and progressivism.
"He's just gonna create trad havens for beautiful families," she told Insider. "I think it's kind of crazy."

When former President Donald Trump recently debuted his 2024 campaign pledge to charter up to ten new American cities on federal land, critics and supporters alike didn't really know what to say.