Recensione:
“Jane Jacobs: guru, philosopher, thinker, elder ... radical.”
—National Post
“Jacobs argues that what she calls the 'five pillars of our culture' are in jeopardy. These comprise families and communities, higher education, science and technology, taxes and governmental power, and, finally, the self-policing of learned professions. . . . Jacobs can write, and so by the end her arguments and admonitions all appear persuasive and disquieting. Crisp, entertaining, scholarly, scary.”
—Kirkus Review
“A treat to read for the way it snaps our perceptions into focus.”
—The San Francisco Chronicle
“The clairvoyance of her plain-spoken prose has, for the past half-century, been astonishing.”
—Toronto Star
“We will ignore her predictions at our peril. Her latest book on cities and civilization could not have come at a more appropriate time.... Anyone living in a city needs to read this book.... It’s a call to action delivered in a readable and engrossing fashion. I needed this book. We all need to pay greater attention to how we are fouling our own nest.”
—Calgary Herald
“Dense with dynamic thoughts and delivered in a way that is simultaneously concise, ruminative and non-confrontational.”
—The Vancouver Sun
“If the moment has come to announce the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, let us be thankful the job has fallen to someone has clear-eyed and compassionate as legendary urban critic Jane Jacobs.”
—The Georgia Straight
Praise for Jane Jacobs:
“Probably no single thinker has done more in the last fifty years to transform our ideas about the nature of urban life.”
—Chicago Tribune
“[Jacobs] is a thinker of wondrous acumen and curiosity looking still deeper into the human condition.”
—The Globe and Mail
“Jane Jacobs has become more than a person. She is an adjective.”
—Toronto Life
L'autore:
Jane Jacobs is the author of several books, including the classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities, which redefined urban studies and economic policy, and the bestselling Systems of Survival. She lives and works in Toronto.
From the Hardcover edition.
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