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<oembed><version>1.0</version><provider_name>naked capitalism</provider_name><provider_url>https://www.nakedcapitalism.com</provider_url><author_name>Lambert Strether</author_name><author_url>https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/author/lambert-strether</author_url><title>Notes and Excursions on Christopher Alexanders "The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth" | naked capitalism</title><type>rich</type><width>600</width><height>338</height><html>&lt;blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="DaKANeygMw"&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/04/notes-and-excursions-on-christopher-alexanders-the-battle-for-the-life-and-beauty-of-the-earth.html"&gt;Notes and Excursions on Christopher Alexanders &#x201C;The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth&#x201D;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/04/notes-and-excursions-on-christopher-alexanders-the-battle-for-the-life-and-beauty-of-the-earth.html/embed#?secret=DaKANeygMw" width="600" height="338" title="&#x201C;Notes and Excursions on Christopher Alexanders &#x201C;The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth&#x201D;&#x201D; &#x2014; naked capitalism" data-secret="DaKANeygMw" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
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</html><description>So, Facebook is good for something: A friend of mine posted on Christopher Alexander's new book, The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth: A Struggle Between Two World Systems, and since I like beautiful books, I ordered a copy (Powells; Amazon). Alexander is doing the sort of architecture that a permaculturist would like: Site specific, but also do-able if we can't get dry wall from China, lumber from Canada, hardwood flooring from Indonesia, and if petroleum products like Pex or fiberglass insulation have gotten very, very expensive, along with anything (meaning everything) that depends on a petroleum-fueled supply chain. Alexander's method of building -- he calls it "System A" -- is, one might say, "collapse-ready," in a way that conventional architecture (the Manichean "System B") can never be. Like permaculture.</description><thumbnail_url>http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/guidebook.jpg</thumbnail_url></oembed>

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