Citizen Jane: Battle for the City

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.