Battle for the life and beauty of the earth : a struggle between two world-systems / Christopher Alexander, HansJoachim Neis and Maggie Moore Alexander

The campus of Eishen Gakuen -- The crucial importance of local adaptation -- System-A and system-b: a necessary confrontation -- Inner wasteland in our hearts -- Wholeness and the whole -- 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 -- Direct management -- Heavy threats, attempted bribes, and danger -- Bulldozers, tea bushes, architects, and carpenters -- The ugly claws of system-b -- The anvil -- Remaining battles in the field -- Appearance of a genuine and living atmosphere -- Awakening our creation system -- The geometry of living reality and beauty -- The fifteen geometric properties of wholeness -- How wholeness is generated, continuously following the golden glow -- The beauty of daily life -- Recovery of human nature and rebirth of civilization.