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049 $aMAIN
100 1 $aJacobs, Jane,$d1916-2006.
245 10 $aDark age ahead /$cJane Jacobs.
250 $a1st Vintage Books ed.
260 $aNew York :$bVintage Books,$c2005.
300 $a241 pages ;$c20 cm
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500 $aOriginally published: New York : Random House, 2004.
500 $aIncludes index.
520 $aPublisher's description: 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. 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. But this is a hopeful book as well as a warning. Jacobs draws on her vast frame of reference -- from fifteenth-century Chinese shipbuilding to zoning regulations in Brampton, Ontario -- and in highly readable, invigorating prose offers proposals that could arrest the cycles of decay and turn them into beneficent ones. Wise, worldly, full of real-life examples and accessible concepts, this book is an essential read for perilous times.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe hazard -- Families rigged to fail -- Credentialing versus educating -- Science abandoned -- Dumbed-down taxes -- Self-policing subverted -- Unwinding vicious spirals -- Dark age patterns.
590 $bInternet Archive - 2
590 $bInternet Archive 2
650 0 $aRegression (Civilization)
650 0 $aCivilization$xPhilosophy.
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650 7 $aRegression (Civilization)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01093263
650 7 $aCivilização (filosofia)$2larpcal
650 7 $aRegressão (civilização)$2larpcal
650 17 $aDéclin de la civilisation.$2rasuqam
650 7 $aCivilisation.$2rasuqam
650 7 $aPhilosophie.$2rasuqam
650 7 $aCivilisation moderne.$2rasuqam
651 7 $aAmérique du Nord.$2rasuqam
650 7 $aNiedergang$2gnd
650 7 $aStadtökonomie$2gnd
650 7 $aKulturkritik$2gnd
650 7 $aStadtleben$2gnd
651 7 $aUSA.$2swd
650 7 $aBUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.$2bisacsh
650 6 $aDécadence.
650 6 $aCivilisation$xPhilosophie.
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