Citizen Jane

The film Citizen Jane: battle for the City directed by Matt Tyrnaver showcased two completely different views on what a city should be like. First version is Robert Moses’s vision for New York City, and the second is Jane Jacobs’s idea of what city should consists of. Robert Moses was a urban planner who believed in quick fix cleanup, he wanted to create a city of skyscrapers and highways. Jane Jacobs was an activist and a writer whose vision of the city revolved around community and it’s people, she fought against a very powerful man to protect and preserve’s history of lower manhattan from being changed completely.

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