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Citizen Jane: Battle for the City

2016・United States・93 minutes

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In the 1960s, the cultural settlement in downtown New York was about to be demolished by the city. As a journalist, Jane Jacobs (Jane Jacobs), in order to protect the vitality of Greenwich Village and the Little Italy neighborhood, fought against Robert Moses ( Robert Moses, a series of expressway projects through Manhattan. Her The Birth and Decline of Great Cities remains a must-read on urban planning. This film brilliantly describes the most dramatic battle for urban renewal in the 20th century, detailing Jane Jacobs' detailed observations of urban life. The debates and reflections triggered by it sharply highlight the poor imagination of today's urban development thinking.

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2016
多倫多國際電影節

2016
DOC NYC 紐約紀錄片影展

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麥特・提諾爾