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008			090514r20052004nyu r 001 0 eng d
020			_a1400076706 (pbk.)
020			_a9781400076703 (pbk.)
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040			_aJIN _bspa _cJIN _dUIASF
050		4	_aCB 19 _bJ33.2005
100	1		_aJacobs, Jane, _d1916-2006
245	1	0	_aDark age ahead / _cJane Jacobs.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York : _bVintage Books, _c2005.
300			_a241 p. ; _c20 cm.
500			_aOriginally published: New York : Random House, 2004.
500			_aIncluye índice.
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.
650		0	_aRegression (Civilization)
650		4	_aRegresión (Civilización)
650		0	_aCivilization _xPhilosophy.
650		4	_aCivilización - _xFilosofía.
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