Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth A Struggle Between Two World-Systems

Name: Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth A Struggle Between Two World-Systems
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ISBN: 9780199898077

ISBN-10: 0199898073

ISBN-13: 9780199898077

Edition: 2012

Authors: Christopher Alexander, HansJoachim Neis, Maggie Moore Alexander

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Book details

List price: $52.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/29/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 528
Size: 7.36" wide x 9.09" long x 0.95" tall
Weight: 2.244
Language: English



Preface: A New Architecture and a New Civilization



Solving The Problem Of Architecture In Our Time



The Campus of Eishin Gakuen



The Crucial Importance of Local Adaptation



System-A and System-B: A Necessary Confrontation



Inner Aspects of the Two Production Systems



The Wasteland in Our Hearts



Wholeness and the Whole



Rumblings Of A Coming Battle



Hosoi's Dream



Creating Life in the Environment



A Pattern Language for the Community



The Construction Budget



Flags: The Reality of the Land



Symmetry, Simplicity, and Grace



Pitched Battle



Direct Management



Heavy Threats, Attempted Bribes, and Danger



Bulldozers, Teabushes, Architects, and Carpenters



The Ugly Claws of System B



The Healing Anvil



Remaining Battles in the Field



Appearance of a Genuine and Living Atmosphere



Groundwork For a Creation-System



Awakening Our Society's Creation System



Large Scale Production



Enhancing and Extending Wholeness



Elements are Being Created at the Same Time that the Whole is Being Created



Following the Golden Glow



The Beauty of Daily Life



Recovery of Human Nature & Rebirth of Civilization


Index