Search results
Nov 11, 2016 · By Owen Gleiberman. Courtesy of TIFF. “Citizen Jane: Battle for the City,” directed by the gifted journalist and documentarian Matt Tyrnauer (“Valentino: The Last Emperor”), tells the ...
Sep 20, 2017 · A summary and short review of this documentary about the great urban writer Jane Jacobs and her struggles to maintain Washington Park in NYC. The 2016 documentary movie “Citizen Jane – Battle for the City” gives a great overview of the struggles related to modernist planning in the 1960s. It tells the story of Jane Jacobs, the famous ...
The battle in how the urban form of New York City in particular was shaped in the mid-twentieth century is presented, the two leading figures on the opposing sides of the battle being Robert Moses, who held many senior positions related to development of urban infrastructure, and Manhattan resident and journalist Jane Jacobs, author of "The Death and Life of Great American Cities".
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.
- (667)
- Documentary, Biography, History
- Matt Tyrnauer
- 2017-04-21
Apr 14, 2017 · Plan a night at the movies to see Citizen Jane: Battle for the City, a rousing documentary about journalist-activist Jane Jacobs and her fight in the 1960s against Robert Moses, New York’s tsar ...
- Wayne Lawson
Watch on. Opened in theaters April 21, 2017. Directed by: Matt Tyrnauer 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. This is a story about our global urban future, in which nearly three-fourths of the world’s ...
People also ask
Who starred in Citizen Jane?
What is Citizen Jane about?
Who are the actors in Citizen Jane 'Battle for the city'?
How long is Citizen Jane?
Apr 19, 2017 · “Citizen Jane: Battle for the City,” directed by Matt Tyrnauer, which chronicles the author and activist Jane Jacobs’s opposition to several ambitious, potentially ruinous Robert Moses ...
