CONTENTS Preface vii Biography xi Acknowledgements xiii 1: Our collapsing global bridge 1 Places 21 Earth 21 Air 24 Water 27 Fire 30 Principles 33 Instead of superfluous form, make everything count 33 Instead of quantity, focus on qualities 34 2: How nature suffers in the naturalistic fallacy 35 Places 54 Home 54 Housing 57 University 60 School 63 Principles 65 Instead of throwing away, reuse or recycle 65 Instead of ignoring sources, attend to the source of everything 67 3: Why having less is more 69 Places 87 Cemetery 87 Mounds 90 Temple 93 Cathedral 96 Principles 99 Instead of consuming things, treat everything as sacred 99 Instead of wanting more, seek doing with less 101 4: When virtues are no vice 103 Places 121 Hospital 121 Healing garden 124 Golf course 126 Playground 129 Principles 131 Instead of expensiveness, focus on affordability 131 Instead of excluding others, provide everyone a place 133 5: Drafting a new social contract 135 Places 154 City 154 Suburb 157 Town 160 Country 163 Principles 166 Instead of cutting us off from nature, connect us to it 166 Instead of reducing the ecological diversity of a site, improve it 168 6: The needs of duty 171 Places 188 Corporations 188 Office 191 Store 193 Factory 196 Principles 199 Instead of creating objects to possess, build community 199 Instead of specialized things that can only have one use, make them multi-functional 201 7: The consequences of ignoring consequences 203 Places 221 Laboratory 221 Museum 224 Loft 227 Fort 230 Principles 233 Instead of radical experiments, see everything in evolutionary terms 233 Instead of focusing on abstractions, attend to what is real 235 References 237 Index 245