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# An Urban Dark Age?
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2004/05/an_urban_dark_a/
- Published: 2004-05-06T11:27:49.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T08:52:28.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth

With May’s [GRID](http://www.estatesgazettegroup.co.uk/prod%5FEG%5Fgrid.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com "GRID") on the presses, my sections of the weekly beast we call [EG](http://www.estatesgazettegroup.co.uk/prod%5Fegaz.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com "Estates Gazette") running smoothly (for now), my mind is turning towards plotting out the next few months for both. I had a brief chat with Sir Richard Rogers at a recent breakfast meeting (I did the typical journalist thing of not paying enough attention to the invite, turning up half-awake and bleary eyed and finding myself talking to the Lord Mayor of London before my first coffee), it occurred to me that I need to read around urban theory a little more.

When I find some of my favourite [built](http://citycomfortsblog.typepad.com/cities/2004/04/dark%5Fage%5Fahead.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com "City Comforts") [environment](http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2004/05/jane%5Fjacobs%5Fdar.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com "Veritas et Venustas") [blogs](http://larryfeltonjohnson.typepad.com/atlantalarry/2004/05/jane%5Fjacobss%5Fne.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com "Atlanta Larry") are all talking about the same book, as is a [blog](http://www.benhammersley.com/dparchives/008266.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com "Ben Hammersley's Dangerous Precedent") I don’t normally associate with urban development issues, I can take a hint. I think I should check out Jane Jacob’s *Dark Age Ahead*.

Off to [Amazon](http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1400062322/ref=sr%5Faps%5Fbooks%5F1%5F1/026-0190910-9199672?ref=onemanandhisblog.com "Dark Age Ahead") with the corporate credit card…

More thoughts and reactions once I have it. Any other suggestions for my bookshelf?