Dark Age Ahead:

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ISBN: 9780679313106

ISBN-10: 0679313109

ISBN-13: 9780679313106

Edition: 2004

Authors: Jane Jacobs

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Visionary thinker Jane Jacobs uses her authoritative work on urban life and economies to show us how we can protect and strengthen our culture and communities. InDark Age Ahead, Jane Jacobs identifies five pillars of our culture that we depend on but which are in serious decline: community and family; higher education; the effective practice of science; taxation and government; and self-policing by learned professions. The decay of these pillars, Jacobs contends, is behind such ills as environmental crisis, racism and the growing gulf between rich and poor; their continued degradation could lead us into a new Dark Age, a period of cultural collapse in which all that keeps a society alive…

Book details

List price: $21.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Random House of Canada Ltd
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 241
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Jane Jacobs lives in Toronto.