New York Times Reviews Jane Jacobs New Book
The New York Times Book Review calls Jacob's new book "extremely sloppy" and "haphazard."
"Jane Jacobs's 1961 classic, "The Death and Life of Great American Cities," was a prescient and enormously influential jeremiad against the deadening fallout of modernist urban planning. But it was also an evocative ode to the messy cacophony of city life, a paean to the resilience and imagination of city dwellers.Indeed her new book, "Dark Age Ahead," is both wildly ambitious in scope and gloomily portentous about the direction of North American culture."
Thanks to Linsey Cameron
Published on Monday, October 24, 2005 in
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