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- catalog abstract "Publisher'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.".
- catalog contributor b13256690.
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description "1. The hazard -- 2. Families rigged to fail -- 3. Credentialing versus educating -- 4. Science abandoned -- 5. Dumbed-down taxes -- 6. Self-policing subverted -- 7. Unwinding vicious spirals -- 8. Dark age patterns.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Publisher'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.".
- catalog extent "241 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Dark age ahead.".
- catalog identifier "1400062322 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Dark age ahead.".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Random House,".
- catalog relation "Dark age ahead.".
- catalog subject "901 22".
- catalog subject "CB19 .J33 2004".
- catalog subject "Civilization Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Regression (Civilization)".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. The hazard -- 2. Families rigged to fail -- 3. Credentialing versus educating -- 4. Science abandoned -- 5. Dumbed-down taxes -- 6. Self-policing subverted -- 7. Unwinding vicious spirals -- 8. Dark age patterns.".
- catalog title "Dark age ahead / Jane Jacobs.".
- catalog type "text".