Jane Jacobs Audio Books

Thirty years after its publication, The Death and Life of Great American Cities was described by The New York Times as "perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning....[It] can also be seen in a much larger context.

Decades after The Death and Life of Great American Cities forever changed the field of urban studies, Jane Jacobs-one of the few contemporary thinkers whose works will remain in print for generations-brought us a modern classic on economies and ecology.

A dark age is a culture's dead end. In North America, for example, we live in a virtual graveyard of lost and destroyed aboriginal cultures. In this powerful and provocative book, renowned author Jane Jacobs argues convincingly that we face the coming of our own dark age.

With intelligence and clarity of observation, the author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities addresses the moral values that underpin working life.

In this book, Jane Jacobs, building on the work of her debut, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, investigates the delicate way cities balance the interplay between the domestic production of goods and the ever-changing tide of imports.

In this eye-opening work of economic theory, Jane Jacobs argues that it is cities-not nations-that are the drivers of wealth.