Someone in the audience shouted out at the end of the film "I hope there are some people from the Auckland council here."

A clarion call for better urban planning that resonates with our own current situation. Jane Jacobs is an inspiring central figure.

Much of this has been covered already in previous documentaries but this film certainly makes the case for the profound influence of the writer turned activist from Greenwich Village.

Fascinating documentary about urban planning. Never thought I’d write that phrase. Jane Jacobs was an vital, vibrant person and her views on humanising cities are more relevant now than ever.

The first thing I did upon leaving the Ritz Bourse the night I saw Citizen Jane: Battle for the City was to get in my car and ascend a ramp onto I-95 and then the Vine Street Expressway, two interstates that, from above, look like a massive scar running across downtown Philadelphia. Most of the time when I am using these highways (likely sitting in traffic), I don’t even think about the impact they’ve had, especially since their opening predates my worldly awareness. But when I am headed to the Spruce Street Harbor Park, the Electric Factory, or Fishtown, it is always on my mind how aesthetically unpleasing these highways are for people on the ground.

Full review: cinedelphia.com/citizen-jane-battle-for-the-city-review/

How cool to see a doco about one of my heros.
People always react to an issue "but what can I do?, I'm just one person". Jane Jacobs proves it only takes one.

One take-home lesson from this expertly-constructed city planning doco is that US male urbanist commentators really need to have someone tell them that bowties are unacceptable.

De rabiosisima actualidad, alucina como no hemos cambiado NADA en depende que temas.
Este documental es algo más que sobre el urbanismo sostenible de las ciudades, y cómo deberían estar dispuestas las mismas para el uso y disfrute de las personas.
Es, una vez mas, un enfrentamiento entre los poderes capitalistas que arrinconan y marginan a los mas pobres en nombre del progreso, contra la gente, y como a pesar de contar con un estandarte tan llamativo, inteligente y potente como es Jane Jacobs, cuando la gente se une, es posible cambiar absolutamente todo.

As a lover of urban design and architecture, a documentary about Jane Jacobs and the urban design battles fought in NYC was pretty much catnip for myself. It's not a mind blowing documentary, and I do think a great book on the subject might delve a bit more into everything, but it does give a solid overview of the subject and it has some really great archival footage. Vincent D'Onofrio now really needs to play Robert Moses in a biopic of him, as he has such a good voice for an evil developer.

Antagonistic.

Death to cars.

woah a bunch of men really thought that taking away community would decrease crime-

nvm this adds up

Interesting movie about mid 20th century urban renewal and its effect on cities and various neighborhoods. The God view vs the street view. My biggest complaint was as in life ( I suspect), Robert Moses stole the spotlight and pushed Jane to the side of her own story. I wanted more Jane and less Moses

"Las ciudades tienen la capacidad de proporcionar algo para todo el mundo, sólo porque, y sólo cuando, se crean para todo el mundo"

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Doc about citizen activist who fought to preserve NYC's historic neighborhoods in the 1950s and 1960s.

Numtot icon Saint Jane 🥺

I find urban planning fascinating, so I was bound to enjoy this. It's astonishing to think that urban planners really thought that large homogenous apartment blocks and expressways through neighbourhoods were a good idea.

Wonderful documentary 

We love Jane

Watched for Abi’s cities in cinema class. I feel like I learned a lot about urban planning and how building tall buildings isn’t always good for the people.

NEED MORE SUBSTANCE

I'm a sucker for a good urban planning story. If you don't know anything about Jane Jacobs, this is a great introduction. Some of these issues I had heard about while living in NYC but it was nice to see it in concrete terms (no pun intended).