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Chronicle of activist Jane Jacobs' battle with developers who threatened to demolish NYC's most historic neighborhoods and a lesson in the power of the average person to push back.
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- Matt Tyrnauer
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Apr 21, 2017 · Citizen Jane: Battle for the City: Directed by Matt Tyrnauer. With Thomas Campanella, Vincent D'Onofrio, Mindy Fullilove, Alexander Garvin. Writer and urban activist Jane Jacobs fights to save historic New York City during the ruthless redevelopment era of urban planner Robert Moses in the 1960s.
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- Documentary, Biography, History
- Matt Tyrnauer
- 2017-04-21
This film retraces the battles for the city as personified by Jacobs and Moses, as urbanization moves to the very front of the global agenda.
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Citizen Jane: Battle for the City. Chronicle of activist Jane Jacobs' battle with developers who threatened to demolish NYC's most historic neighborhoods and a lesson in the power of the average person to push back. 98 1 h 33 min 2017. X-Ray 13+.
Director Matt Tyranuer (Valentino: The Last Emperor) vividly brings to life Jacobs' 1960s showdown with ruthless construction kingpin Robert Moses over his plan to raze lower Manhattan to make way for a highway, a dramatic struggle over the very soul of the neighborhood. 1 hr 33 minNR.
In 1960, Jane Jacobs' book The Death and Life of Great American Cities sent shockwaves through the architecture and planning worlds, with its exploration of the consequences of modern planners' and architects' reconfiguration of cities.
