Title: Disappointing -> Lazy & Rambling
Product review: When I read Jacob's previous books especially "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" and "Cities and the Wealth of Nations", I became aware that I was reading the insights of a brilliant mind. In these books and others, Jacob's was able to examine society and the economy in ways that went against prevailing assumptions. Unfortunately this is not the case with this book. There is little insight here. The book is just a rambling collection of anecdotes strung together to justify some preconceived ideas.The ideas themselves are not new. They are the stuff one reads in newspaper columns about urbanism. The world is going to hell because not everyone thinks that suburbs and cars are the works of the devil. Jacob's broke new ground in her previous books. This one is just a rehash of tired ideas that were not particularly good the first time around.This is lazy book full of shallow ideas.
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