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Jane Jacobs. (2007). Dark Age Ahead. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Jane Jacobs. 2007. Dark Age Ahead. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Jane Jacobs, Dark Age Ahead. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007.

Jane Jacobs. Dark Age Ahead. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007.

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     Jane Jacobs was the legendary author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, 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 The Economy of Cities, Systems of Survival, and The Nature of Economies. She died in 2006.

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Dark Age Ahead

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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 The Death and Life of Great American Cities and The Economy of Cities—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 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, 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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   • source: The Christian Science Monitor
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     "She once again has proven herself to be one of the most trenchant observers and challenging critics of American culture and character."

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   • source: San Francisco Chronicle
   • content: "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 Dark Age Ahead is a treat to read for the way it snaps our perceptions into focus."
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   • source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
   • content: "A short, dense, terse and often lyrical book that sets the wistful against the hopeful. . . . Wonderful and essential."
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   • source: The Washington Post Book World
   • content: "Dark Age Ahead is witty and damning. . . . It's hard to disagree with Jane Jacobs. . . . Worth reading and thinking about."
5. • premium: False
   • source: Austin-American Statesman
   • content: "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."
6. • premium: False
   • source: The New Yorker
   • content: "[Jacobs is] the matchless analyst of all things urban."
7. • premium: False
   • source: St. Petersburg Times
   • content: "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."
8. • premium: False
   • source: Library Journal
   • content: "Scholarly yet accessible . . . certain to spark debate . . . [a] unique addition to the genre of social forecasting."
9. • premium: False
   • source: Toronto Globe and Mail
   • content: "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."
10. • premium: False
    • source: Cincinnati Enquirer
    • content: "Still right and still cranky after all these years."
11. • premium: False
    • source: Newsweek
    • content: "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."
12. • premium: False
    • source: The Sunday Oregonian (Portland)
    • content: "Jacobs is the quintessential public intellectual, entirely self-taught, omnivorous in her references, pan-historical in her outlook. . . . Dark Age Ahead is something of a retrospective of Jacobs' theories and travels, anchored in specific examples from her years of observation and activism."
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    • source: Chicago Tribune
    • content: "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."
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    • source: Berkeley Daily Planet
    • content: "A sweeping survey of a civilization--ours--on the brink of catastrophe. . . . What makes Dark Age Ahead 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."
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    • source: The Financial Times
    • content: "A blend of advocacy and anecdote about how to protect the vitality of American cities."
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      April 19, 2004
      Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities
      forever transformed the discipline of urban planning by concentrating on what actually helped cities work. Unencumbered by generations of fatuous theorizing, Jacobs proposed a model of action that has left a positive mark in neighborhoods all over the world. Her latest salvo, Dark Age Ahead
      , is, despite the pessimism of many of its conclusions, also positive, less a jeremiad than a firm but helpful reminder of just how much is at stake. Jacobs sees "ominous signs of decay" in five "pillars" of our culture: family, community, higher education, science and "self policing by the learned professions." Each is given a detailed treatment, with sympathetic but hard-headed real-world assessments that are often surprising and always provocative and well-expressed. Her chapter on the decline of the nuclear family completely avoids the moral hand-wringing of the kindergarten Cassandras to place the blame on an economy that has made the affordable home either an unattainable dream or a crippling debt. Her discussion of the havoc wrought by the lack of accountability seems ripped from any number of headlines, but her analysis of the larger effects sets it apart. A lifetime of unwasted experience in a number of fields has gone into this short but pungent book, and to ignore its sober warnings would be foolish indeed.

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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, Dark Age...

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