It would be equally pointless to see urban design as an auto-referential exercise in design, separate or alternative to planning practices, whether it adopts the simplified canons of new urbanism, or any other ready-made model, from the famous and influential ideal-types of the garden city and the radiant city (Fishman 2011).
Indeed, influential conceptions of ideal democracy have been offered by democracy's enemies as well as by its friends.
Despite the slow return to health of a sickly world economy, oil fetches a lofty $75 a barrel, which Saudi Arabia, OPEC's most influential member reckons is "ideal".
The data suggest that, for a girl, it is the age of her mother which is especially influential in forming her ideal age for parenthood, whereas for a boy, neither parent is more influential than the other.
These tracts constitute the century's most powerful and influential statement of pacifist ideals.
Among the Spiritual Franciscans, the works of the late 12th-century mystic Joachim of Fiore were influential, and because of their ideals the Spirituals became sources of inspiration to Protestant mystics of the 16th-century Reformation.
Barlow continued to work along with the EFF in subsequent decades and continued espousing his ideals, becoming an influential force in the lives of online entrepreneurs like Aaron Swartz and Sean Parker.
This influential character, at once normal and ideal, is known as "the reasonable man".
Though the number of members has dwindled over time, the society has been influential in its demonstration of the ideals of social service.
Through an analysis of their lives, it is evident that the bridge between the physical body and contemporary Christian ideals is a mutually influential one.
