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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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Nov 11, 2016 · “Citizen Jane: Battle for the City,” directed by the gifted journalist and documentarian Matt Tyrnauer (“Valentino: The Last Emperor”), tells the story of a David-and-Goliath fight over...
The Woman Who Saved New York City from Superhighway Hell. Citizen Jane, directed by Matt Tyrnauer, chronicles Jane Jacobs’s righteous—and winning—crusade against Robert Moses. By Wayne Lawson.
The film highlights Jane Jacobs’ magisterial 1961 treatise The Death and Life of Great American Cities, in which she single-handedly undercuts her era’s orthodox model of city planning, exemplified by the massive Urban Renewal projects of New York’s “Master Builder,” Robert Moses.
Feb 8, 2024 · In three suspenseful acts, Citizen Jane: Battle for the City gives audiences a front row seat to this battle, and shows how two opposing visions of urban greatness continue to ripple across the world stage, with unexpectedly high stakes, made even higher and more unexpectedly urgent in the suddenly shifting national political landscape of 2017 ...
Apr 21, 2017 · Citizen Jane: Battle for the City offers a compelling overview of an influential activist's importance -- and underscores why the spirit of her work remains crucial today. Read Critics...
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Apr 14, 2017 · And it’s that group that director Matt Tyrnauer had in mind when constructing his documentary Citizen Jane: Battle for the City. Opening in New York on April 21 and Los Angeles April 28, the ambitious 92-minute film is a lightning-round introduction to Jacobs and her place in the urban conversation.
