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9. Sept. 2016 · 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 can be found in Jacobs’s prescient text, and a close second look at her thinking and writing about cities is very much in order. This film sets out to examine the city of ...
You can fight City Hall. Matt Tyrnauer's excellent documentary, Citizen Jane: Battle for the City, shows how it's done, a call to arms that could not be more timely in this chaotic political ...
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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Citizen Jane: Battle for the City. Cartea sa din 1961, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, aducea la acea veme o nouă perspectivă asupra orașelor. Asta pentru că în ea Jacobs chestionează reconfigurările urbanistice ale perioadei sale și propune un alt mod de a privi orașele. Considerat vizionar, textul său adresează ...
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 ...
20. Apr. 2017 · Citizen Jane: Battle for the City is a polished primer on one of the greatest civic battles in American history, played out by two people who understood rhetoric and politics despite never expressly being involved in the latter. They were eloquent, masterful opposing forces, and Tyrnauer outlines their successes and missteps in great, but never longwinded detail. Ultimately, Jacobs would be ...
20. Apr. 2017 · Moses’ ideas have sadly not disappeared in modern times, despite Jacobs’ efforts. As one of the film’s many commentators points out, “China today is like Moses on steroids.”. 92 minutes ...
