Is it Architecture that influences politics? or is it the other way around.

We may be looking at this the wrong way… In class the other day there was a discussion that suggested that architecture had the ability to influence politics, and the way that people act. While the latter is true of course I question the former. Of course architecture can shape the daily life of the individual in many positive and negative ways, that I believe is indisputable. However, does Architecture have the ability to shape politics? I see architecture as a tool used by politicians in an effort to carry our a political agenda. It is the politicians who shape architectural moves, not architecture shaping the actions of politics. Lets take Heisenmen’s Paris. The politicians and theorists of the time devised a plan in order to control the streets. Here politicians are using architecture to accomplish political agendas… not the other way around.