About this title: Jane Jacobs looks at our society, and sees many areas of concern, among them the breakdown of family and community, the money being taken away from state and city governments by Washington, and even the sorry state of public transportation. Putting it all together, Jacobs sees the eventual downfall of Western civilization as an imminent--but still ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9781400062324ISBN:1400062322
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 2004-05-04
ISBN-13:9781400062324ISBN:1400062322
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Edition: 1st printing.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9781400076703ISBN:1400076706
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 2004-05-04
ISBN-13:9781400062324ISBN:1400062322
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"I appreciated the passages in which I got macro-views of civilization, when Jacobs brought her rich life of studying cities and culture to bear on the problems of our disintegration. I appreciate, too, the conciseness of her argument, which sometimes left me wanting the kernel of her thought to bloom -- such as when she gave a small poke at Wendell Berry's romantic torch for agrarian life. He looks foolish, not understanding agrarianism in its wider context, as the thing that usurped foraging, and will be eclipsed by this next thing. (um, which I don't quite get)
I didn't quite get -- or rather quite wholly accept -- Jacobs' premise. But that doesn't shake her from her pedestal, where she stands in my Great Room of Great Thinkers.
This was my pick for my book-group, except I picked it so late no one had time to finish it, so, alas, we didn't feel ready to declare yes or no on the coming Dark Age. Or, okay, basically, I talked and no one got a word in edgewise, so I have no idea what my friends thought or think about Jane Jacobs. How said is that. Talk about social amnesia."
"Jacobs again demands that you pay attention to the things that make society work and the things that threaten to destroy society. This is a dark read, not a hopeful read but filled with potential. If you survived the great economic downturn of this past year, take a moment and ponder whether your luck will hold."
"Tough call between 3 and 4 stars...Jacobs is one of the most important thinkers of the past century, hands down...but she has a propensity for rambling on. Dark Age Ahead is insightful and eerily prescient, with its foreseeing of the current recession. Jacobs frames the current conflict in the first few chapters of the book; perhaps this is the reason I found them so much more engrossing than most of the second half, which dries out around the sixth and seventh chapters, fortunately picking up for the closing eighth. It's no Death and Life of Great American Cities, but Dark Age Ahead is a great read for anyone interested in the general incuriousness that seems to be plaguing contemporary North American society. Jacobs makes a solid argument for the point that we have fallen into the habit of asking all of the wrong questions of ourselves and our culture. If the coming to pass of what she describes in the first part of the book is any indication, we'd best take heed of her warnings in the second half before we slip into a period of cultural forgetfulness; a Dark Age."
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