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Dark Age Ahead - by Jane Jacobs (Paperback)

Dark Age Ahead - by  Jane Jacobs (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Jacobs uses her authoritative work on urban life and economies to discuss ways of protecting and strengthening culture and communities. Wise, worldly, and full of real-life examples and accessible concepts, this book is an essential read for perilous times.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>In this indispensable book, urban visionary Jane Jacobs argues that as agrarianism gives way to a technology-based future, we're at risk of cultural collapse. Jacobs--renowned author of <i>The Death and Life of Great American Cities </i>and <i>The Economy of Cities</i>--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. <p/>But this is a hopeful book as well as a warning. Drawing on a 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, <i>Dark Age Ahead</i> is not only the crowning achievement of Jane Jacobs' career, but one of the most important works of our time.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>She once again has proven herself to be one of the most trenchant observers and challenging critics of American culture and character. --<i>The Christian Science Monitor <p/></i>There's no writer more lucid than Jane Jacobs, nobody better at using wide-open eyes and clean courtly prose to decipher the changing world around us. . . . It's a tribute to Jacobs that her observations still resonate, succinct yet dead on. That's why <i>Dark Age Ahead </i>is a treat to read for the way it snaps our perceptions into focus. --<i>San Francisco Chronicle <p/></i>A short, dense, terse and often lyrical book that sets the wistful against the hopeful. . . . Wonderful and essential. --<i>Milwaukee Journal Sentinel <p/></i><i>Dark Age Ahead</i> is witty and damning. . . . It's hard to disagree with Jane Jacobs. . . . Worth reading and thinking about. --<i>The Washington Post Book World <p/></i>Jane Jacobs has been right about so much for so long that when she writes gloomily of a 'Dark Age Ahead, ' we all better listen.... Prescient. --<i>Austin-American Statesman <p/></i>[Jacobs is] the matchless analyst of all things urban. --<i>The</i> <i>New Yorker <p/></i>A short, terse and often lyrical book that sets the wistful against the hopeful. . . . This book is a warning, artfully and profoundly dressed as a reminder. . . . Thanks to Jacobs for pointing the way. --<i>St. Petersburg Times <p/></i>Scholarly yet accessible . . . certain to spark debate . . . [a] unique addition to the genre of social forecasting. --<i>Library Journal <p/></i>Compact and compelling...A spellbinding account of the forgetting and misplacing of shared values, assets and skills that . . . may lead the contemporary Western world into widespread social, economic and physical disaster. --<i>Toronto Globe and Mail <p/></i>Still right and still cranky after all these years. --<i>Cincinnati Enquirer <p/></i>Jacobs has always championed neighborhoods. Now she has extended her ideas about community to include the culture at large...We should stick around and listen up. --<i>Newsweek <p/></i>Jacobs is the quintessential public intellectual, entirely self-taught, omnivorous in her references, pan-historical in her outlook. . . . <i>Dark Age Ahead</i> is something of a retrospective of Jacobs' theories and travels, anchored in specific examples from her years of observation and activism. --<i>The Sunday Oregonian</i> (Portland) <p/>Culture critic Jane Jacobs, famous for her work on the economies of cities, has taken the idea of a tipping point toward a dramatic end. --<i>Chicago Tribune <p/></i>A sweeping survey of a civilization--ours--on the brink of catastrophe. . . . What makes <i>Dark Age Ahead</i> worth a read is the way in which its author brings her famously independent and inductive mind to bear in fresh ways on familiar topics. --<i>Berkeley Daily Planet <p/></i>A blend of advocacy and anecdote about how to protect the vitality of American cities. --<i>The Financial Times <p/></i>Jane Jacobs is the kind of writer who produces in her readers such changed ways of looking at the world that she becomes an oracle, or final authority. --<i>The New York Sun</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Jane Jacobs was the legendary author of <i>The Death and Life of Great American Cities</i>, a work that has never gone out of print and that has transformed the disciplines of urban planning and city architecture. Her other major works include <i>The Economy of Cities</i>, <i>Systems of Survival</i>, and <i>The Nature of Economies</i>. She died in 2006.</p>

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