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Dark Age Ahead

(Vintage)

By Jacobs, Jane Roberts, Jane Jacobs

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| Paperback | 9781400076703

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In this indispensable book, urban visionary Jane Jacobs--renowned author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities and The Economy of Cities--convincingly argues that as agrarianism gives way to a technology-based future, we stand on the brink of a new dark age, a period of culturContinue

In this indispensable book, urban visionary Jane Jacobs--renowned author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities and The Economy of Cities--convincingly argues that as agrarianism gives way to a technology-based future, we stand on the brink of a new dark age, a period of cultural collapse. Jacobs pinpoints five pillars of our culture that are in serious decay: community and family; higher education; the effective practice of science; taxation, and government; and the self-regulation of the learned professions. The corrosion of these pillars, Jacobs argues, is linked to societal ills such as environmental crisis, racism, and the growing gulf between rich and poor.

But this is a hopeful book as well as a warning. Drawing on her vast frame of reference–from fifteenth-century Chinese shipbuilding to Ireland’s cultural rebirth–Jacobs suggests how the cycles of decay can be arrested and our way of life renewed. Invigorating and accessible, Dark Age Ahead is not only the crowning achievement of Jane Jacobs’ career, but one of the most important works of our time.

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  • Dark Age Ahead: Caution

    by Jane Jacobs Some six centuries before the Christian era began, the prophet Jeremiah lamented: “How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people.” That agile-minded social observer, Jane Jacobs, has written a jeremiad of sorts, but it is a mu ... (read full critics)

    quillandquire published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010

  • Dark Age Ahead, by Jane Jacobs

    Random House Canada, 241 pp, $29.95, hardcover. If the moment has come to announce the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, let us be thankful the job has fallen to someone as clear-eyed and compassionate as legendary urban critic Jane Jacobs. Erudite, i ... (read full critics)

    straight published on Sun, 29 Aug 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 256 Pages
  • Edition: Reprint
  • ISBN-10: 1400076706
  • ISBN-13: 9781400076703
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • Pub date: May 17, 2005
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover and Others
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