Dark Age Ahead - Rilegato

Jacobs, Jane

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ISBN 10: 1400062322 ISBN 13: 9781400062324

Casa editrice: Random House Inc, 2004

Riassunto

A dark age is a culture's dead end. In North America, for example, we live in a virtual graveyard of lost and destroyed aboriginal cultures. In this book, author Jane Jacobs argues that we face the coming of our own dark age.

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Recensione:

“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

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 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 lives in Toronto.

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• Editore: Random House Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1400062322
• ISBN 13: 9781400062324
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida