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Jane Jacobs
Birth date: May 04, 1916
Died: April 25, 2006
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Bright and Shiny Shiny
Bright and Shiny Shiny rated it 10 years ago
I managed 203 pages--maybe someday I'll finish this.
Ladybug's Doodles
Ladybug's Doodles rated it 12 years ago
This was a good book up till the last 9 chapters or so. I became disgusted with Jurgis when he just up and leaves his family to their fate when his son dies. When Jurgis comes back he is upset a family member is a prostitute now. What did he expect? The book then devolves into why socialism is the b...
willemite
willemite rated it 21 years ago
Jacobs contends that we are heading for a new dark age and cites reasons in several categories. One is that we are tending away from rationality. See Creation science. She also cites examples in which research poorly thought out is relied on for policy decision-making, which is a far cry from the bl...
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