No Persistence of Memory
Dec. 31st, 2007 08:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bibliogrammaDark Age Ahead, Jane Jacobs
Renowned city planning theorist Jane Jacobs (author of the classic study of urban planning, The Death and Life of Great American Cities) looks at the state of the cultural infrastructure in North American and argues that unless more attention is paid to this crucial aspect of society, we risk falling into cultural amnesia.
Jacobs specifically focuses on signs of functional breakdown in the areas of community and family, higher education, science and technology, government representation and self-regulation of the professions, and suggests that if these systems for preserving, transmitting and expanding on the accumulated body of cultural history, tradition and knowledge cease to be effective, then we may be unable to avert a new Dark Age. I found Jacob’s arguments persuasive and thought-provoking.
Renowned city planning theorist Jane Jacobs (author of the classic study of urban planning, The Death and Life of Great American Cities) looks at the state of the cultural infrastructure in North American and argues that unless more attention is paid to this crucial aspect of society, we risk falling into cultural amnesia.
Jacobs specifically focuses on signs of functional breakdown in the areas of community and family, higher education, science and technology, government representation and self-regulation of the professions, and suggests that if these systems for preserving, transmitting and expanding on the accumulated body of cultural history, tradition and knowledge cease to be effective, then we may be unable to avert a new Dark Age. I found Jacob’s arguments persuasive and thought-provoking.