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  1. 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. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started. Chronicle of activist Jane Jacobs ...

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  2. He demolished great swathes of housing to build high-rise accommodation and construct superhighways the length of Manhattan. David to his Goliath, Jane Jacobs led a grass-roots campaign to thwart his plan to plough an expressway across town, right through Lower Manhattan. Author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jacobs had a ...

  3. Jacobs was also an activist, who was involved in many fights in mid – century New York, to stop “master builder” Robert Moses from running roughshod over the city. 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. Many of the clues for formulating solutions to the dizzying array of urban issues ...

  4. documentary Citizen Jane: Battle for the City spares us any discussion of the political events of the recent past in favor of a focus on those of nearly sixty years ago. For seasoned students of the history of urban planning in postwar America, Citizen Jane offers few new insights. It is, for all in-tents and purposes, a recounting of Jacobss.

  5. Legendary writer and urban activist Jane Jacobs’ battle to save historic NYC neighbourhoods from the draconian redevelopment plans of Robert Moses in the 1960s. FLASH SALE. Ve 1 año por solamente $119.88 $75. Obtén esta oferta ahora. FLASH SALE. 00. D ...

  6. Citizen Jane: Battle for the City is a wide-ranging and immensely dramatic documentary that will inspire an urban fervor within all who see it. The film, directed by Matt Tyrnauer, maps the vituperative skirmishes and heavy duty battles launched by Robert Moses, a New York City wheeler and dealer whose dominance as a city planner and "Master Builder" stretched from the 1930s to the 1960s.

  7. Citizen Jane: Battle for the City, is a film about cities through the lens of Jane Jacobs, author of the 1961 book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities. In 1960 Jane Jacobs’s 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 ...

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