Dark Age Ahead Quotes

“Not TV or illegal drugs but the automobile has been the chief destroyer of American communities.”
― Jane Jacobs, Dark Age Ahead

“Two parents, to say nothing of one, cannot possibly satisfy all the needs of a family-household. A community is needed as well, for raising children, and also to keep adults reasonably sane and cheerful. A community is a complex organism with complicated resources that grow gradually and organically.”
― Jane Jacobs, Dark Age Ahead

“It has long been recognized that getting an education is effective for bettering oneself and one's chances in the world. But a degree and an education are not necessarily synonymous.”
― Jane Jacobs, Dark Age Ahead

“A vigorous culture capable of making corrective,stabilizing changes depends heavily on its educated people, and especially upon their critical capacities and depth of understanding.”
― Jane Jacobs, Dark Age Ahead

“Another thing: a living culture is forever changing, without losing itself as a framework and context of change. The reconstruction of a culture is not the same as its restoration.”
― Jane Jacobs, Dark Age Ahead

“This is both a gloomy and a hopeful book.”
― Jane Jacobs, Dark Age Ahead

“Some who are fortunate enough to have communities still do fight to keep them, but they have seldom prevailed. While people possess a community, they usually understand that they can't afford to lose it; but after it is lost, gradually even the memory of what was lost is lost.”
― Jane Jacobs, Dark Age Ahead

“My guess was that the jobs were being added specifically in the GTA”
― Jane Jacobs, Dark Age Ahead