Christopher Alexander, The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth: A Struggle Between Two World-Systems, Oxford University Press, 2012. preview at Google Books 
Part One: Solving The Problem of Architecture in Our Time (Chapters 1-6)
Opening Pages of Part One
1. The Campus of Eishin Gakuen
2. The Crucial Importance of Local Adaptation
3. System-A and System-B: A Necessary Confrontation
4. Inner Aspects of the Two Production Systems
5. The Wasteland in our Hearts
6. Wholeness and the Whole
Part Two: Rumblings of a Coming Battle, 1982-1983 (Chapters 7-12)
Opening Pages of Part Two
7. Hosoi's Dream
8. Creating Life in the Environment
9. A Pattern Language for the Community
12. Symmetry, Simplicity and Grace
Part Three: Pitched Battle, 1983-1985 (Chapters 13-19)
14. Heavy Threats, Attempted Bribes, and Danger
15. Bulldozers, Tea Bushes, Architects, and Carpenters
17. The Anvil
18. Remaining Battles in the Field
19. Appearance of a Genuine and Living Atmosphere
Part Four: Groundwork for a New Creation System, 2011 and beyond (Chapters 20-25)
20. Awakening our Creation System
21. The Geometry of Living Reality and Beauty
22. The Fifteen Geometric Properties of Wholeness
23. How Wholeness is Generated, Continuously Following the Golden Glow
24. The Beauty of Daily Life
25. Recovery of Human Nature and Rebirth of Civilization
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