{"product_id":"dark-age-ahead","title":"Dark Age Ahead","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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003cb\u003eDark Age Ahead\u003c\/b\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut 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.","brand":"Random House of Canada","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55753029320777,"sku":null,"price":13.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0956\/5336\/3785\/files\/23547153482429.jpg?v=1781897016","url":"https:\/\/morebetterbooks.com\/products\/dark-age-ahead","provider":"More Better Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}