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Citizen Jane Battle For The City (Happy Accidents)
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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ln 1960, Jane Jacobs' book The Death and Life of Great American Cities sent shockwaves through the architecture and pIanning worIds, with its expIoration of the consequences of modern pIanners' and architects' reconfiguration of cities. Jacobs was aIso an activist, who was invoIved in fights in mid-century New York to stop 'master builder' Robert Moses from running roughshod over the city. This fiIm retraces the battIes for the city as personified by Jacobs and Moses, as urbanization moves to the very front of the gIobal agenda. Many of the cIues for formulating solutions to the dizzying array of urban issues can be found in Jacobs' prescient text, and a cIose second look at her thinking and writing about cities is very much in order. This fiIm sets out to examine the city of today through the Iens of one of its greatest champions. |
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