Based on the films “My Brooklyn” and “Citizen Jane: Battle for the City” it shows that there is no stopping the change of the city, whether it’s good or bad change. There must be a change in order for a city to be progressive. There are many ways to go about making a difference to have a successful outcome, but the City of New York did these changes the wrong way. The city is only concerned about the profit they would make when drawing up plans. They only listen to what the planners have to say and how much money would they gain. It seems as the people of the city doesn’t have a say on what should change. Everything comes as a total surprise to them when they are abruptly pushed out of their neighborhood with the higher rent charges or the owners be brought out by the city. The people of the city should have a say in these changes; their opinion should matter.

The films we watched in class “My Brooklyn” and “Citizen Jane: Battle for the City” clearly shows that we do not have any right to our City. Many changes can be made automatically without asking the community for our opinion. Before our city used to be safe whereas everyone got along and would look after each other children. In our city today, we are afraid to walk during the day or late at night because it became very violent. Also, while building the highway they did not think the problems it was going to cause. The traffic in our city is insane. I feel like every change that is made to our city brings another problem behind it. The Fulton Mall is where many people knew each other and would like to shop, but now what prevents them from going is that there are many tall buildings that were constructed for office use. Many persons no longer feel the sense of going because it is not the same. If we worked as a community there would not have been many problems in our city, everyone will feel secure and would have a different perspective on our city.

Human history is all about improvements, we get out of the cave and lives in a tent, after that, we abandoned the tent then build house, and now it time to leave the house and move to building. In my opinion, a City is called City aren’t how many lands it had, neither of how it was built, but the density of the populations. It is normal to me that when the population of a City growth to certain level. The governor, people in charge of the power and wealth, need to find a way of expanding the City. Land is a limited resource, so making more buildings are the best way of expanding the City. Human are different than animal because we are intelligent, and language is one of the best ways to show human intelligent. For the long human history time, we had not lost our communication skill to severe condition, then why should we fear of loosing it just to move out of houses and be put in buildings. To be honest, does an open street safer then a close play ground or park? I believe a park or play ground surrounded with walls are safer. I’ve been in Hong Kong for couple days, stayed at one of my relative apartments. However, the place where my relative lived had no house, all buildings. To see a house, one need to drive a car for an hour. In those few days, I meet most of the family who lived in the same building and some of the people lived in another building near it. I had the feeling of the whole building is a big family, they help each other’s. just like the scene on the film “Citizen Jane: Battle for the City” when kids are playing on the street and parents watch them at the windows or in front of the doors. City is everyone’s City and community is everyone’s community too. We all have the right and the responsibility to make it better.

In the films that we watched it was clear that changes are inevitable. At a certain point, we need changes in our life, community, and city. There are changes that we can’t manage, because of our word or as a person we are not values enough. I am talking about those changes that occur in our city, it doesn’t matter if you were there for months, years, or decades. The time they need to take a decision about a changed they would end up not thinking about you. As a government, you think that the changes will benefit the community or the people, but at the end of the day, they would not. As we saw it in the Jane Jacob film, changes are made in the name of people but nor for the people. The city makes that changes, but as a community, you are the one that has to faces those changes. I think that as a resident of the city you have a right to that city, but we just don’t implement it. It’s easier to blame others or just let them do whatever they want with our rights than used it. I think most of us are just scared of the consequences and that is the reason why we prefer to stay quiet.