CITIZEN JANE: BLOG

In the movie citizen Jane we are shown  a  common phenomenon that has been going on for years and still affects all low income american citizens and immigrants. In the movie, Jane Jacobs well known as a writer and then as an activist, this woman had a different idea about the real meaning of a city, what really matter in a city  is its people ,powerful developers such as Robert Moses had a totally different concept/idea. Robert Moses had a lot of power when it came to the New York City housing authority, meaning that he could destroy and build whatever he wanted, to his like. In the other hand we have his opponent Jane Jacobs has this different vision about the real meaning of city. While Robert Moses believed that the real meaning of the city was it building/new construction and the physical look of it, Jane idea was different, her philosophy said that people is what really  matters in the city. In the movie can be seen how Robert Moses wanted to build a road through the middle of Westchester square, Jane totally disagreed with this idea and fought against it until victory. This woman had a vision that nobody out there had, she thought that city planning was the future factor that was going to destroy neighborhood. If we stick to Robert Moses idea, although it’s illogical, we we begin to start the rebuilding of city all over again, as he wanted, will it still be the same in the general aspect of it. In the first place what really makes Yew York a good place is the fact that you can consider every building a mini neighborhood inside a neighborhood. Right at the moment that those building were torn down all that magic and spirit of the community. Once the renewal happens, old residents that used to live there wont come back because of the high rent or even because they don’t know anybody on that new renewed-building

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