Jane Jacobs' New Book

"Dark Age Ahead" is a new book by the influential urbanist Jane Jacobs.

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May 2, 2004, 1:00 PM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

Influential visionary Jane Jacobs' new book will be released on May 4th, 2004, "In Dark 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 and vibrant is forgotten."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

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