New York Times Reviews Jane Jacobs New Book

The New York Times Book Review calls Jacob's new book "extremely sloppy" and "haphazard."

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June 17, 2004, 8:00 AM PDT

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

"Jane Jacobs's 1961 classic, "The Death and Life of Great American Cities," was a prescient and enormously influential jeremiad against the deadening fallout of modernist urban planning. But it was also an evocative ode to the messy cacophony of city life, a paean to the resilience and imagination of city dwellers.Indeed her new book, "Dark Age Ahead," is both wildly ambitious in scope and gloomily portentous about the direction of North American culture."

Thanks to Linsey Cameron

FULL STORY: BOOKS OF THE TIMES | 'DARK AGE AHEAD': A Lover of Urban Life Fears Decline and Fal

Monday, October 24, 2005 in The New York Times

Community / Economic Development United States

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