“What dooms losers?” Jane Jacobs wrote in 2004 in DARK AGE AHEAD. “Losers are confronted with such radical jolts in circumstances that their institutions can not adapt adequately, become irrelevant, and are dropped.”
Jane’s final book is a scathing criticism of the fragility of modern society (with a dash of positivity and hope).
How does a society decline? How is a culture forgotten? Why should we care?
We should care, deeply, Jane says. Because without knowing how can we avoid our fate?
Is it too late?
(Perhaps.)
And is this title too dark to read at this moment?
(Maybe.)
Jane fans, have you read this premonitory book?!
Jane Jacobs… for young people!
From Rebecca Pitts for Seven Stories Press, JANE JACOBS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE is a Young Adult biography of Jane Jacobs, the visionary urbanist, thinker, and activist who believed in the power of ordinary citizens to reshape their communities — one neighborhood street, block, or business venture at a time. Forthcoming in 2021, Jane’s story will join the Young People's Series published by Seven Stories Press for their Triangle Square Books for Young Readers imprint. Find out more about the book right here...
