Volume 56, Number 13 · August 13, 2009
New York: The Prophet
By Jason Epstein
Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took on New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City
by Anthony Flint
Random House, 231 pp., $27.00
Genius of Common Sense: Jane Jacobs and the Story of The Death and Life of Great American Cities
by Glenna Lang and Marjory Wunsch
Godine, 127 pp., $17
In 2004, her eighty-eighth year, Jane Jacobs published her last book, Dark Age Ahead, in which she mentioned in passing that 'sooner or later (the housing bubble) would burst...as all bubbles do when their surfaces are not supported by commensurate increases in economic production.' Dark Age Ahead was uncharacteristically gloomy and not widely read: a pity, for it would be two years before the economist Nouriel Roubini and others described an unstable housing bubble and warned of trouble.
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