Dark age ahead

Jane Jacobs First published 2004

About this book

Dark Age Ahead is a 2004 book by Jane Jacobs describing what she sees as the decay of five key "pillars" in "North America": community and family, higher education, science and technology, taxes and government responsiveness to citizen's needs, and self-regulation by the learned professions.

She argues that this decay threatens to create a Dark Age unless the trends are reversed. Jacobs characterizes a Dark Age as a "mass amnesia" where even the memory of what was lost is lost.

Subjects

business & economics / economics / theory
civilisation
civilisation moderne
civilização (filosofia)
civilization
civilization, philosophy
décadence
déclin de la civilisation
kulturkritik
modern civilization
niedergang
philosophie
philosophy
regressão (civilização)
regression (civilization)
social science / anthropology / cultural & social
social science / sociology / urban
stadtleben
stadtökonomie