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pronunciation; and the seventeenth century architects
who revolted from this regime and created the baroque
were at home only in the pleasure gardens and theatres
of princes . . .
In his youth a student of the Scottish biologist Patrick
Geddes, Mumford has always given us a civilized example of
how unnecessary and unrewarding are the ways of the
specialist who sees nothing in relation to anything else: “It was
by means of the book that the architecture of the eighteenth
century from St. Petersburg to Philadelphia seemed cast by a
single mind.” (p. 43)
Print was in itself a commodity, a new natural resource
which also showed us how to tap all other kinds of resources
including ourselves. Media as staples or natural resources are