Ch. 1. Religion and the distortion of consciousness -- Ch. 2. Expanding cities and shrinking farm land -- Ch. 3. Unbounded corporate profiteering in a finite global environment -- Ch. 4. Human interaction analysis -- Ch. 5. Degrees of freedom as expressed in settlement patterns -- Ch. 6. Energy and life -- Ch. 7. Circulatory systems -- Ch. 8. From metropolis to matripolis -- Ch. 9. Summary and conclusions