Architecture+Design Film Festival: Citizen Jane: Battle for the City

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Sun, May 7 / 4 pm

Directed by Matt Tyrnauer
2016, USA, 92 min

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Following the recent centenary of her birth, and a flurry of books and exhibitions, this timely and inspirational documentary chronicles the work of writer and urban activist Jane Jacobs, including her legendary 1960s battle to save NYC neighbourhoods from the ruthless power broker Robert Moses.

Sponsored by Lisa Landrum.

Citizen Jane: Battle for The City details the revolutionary thinking of Jane Jacobs and the origins of her magisterial 1961 treatise The Life and Death of American Cities. The film is a story about our global urban future in which nearly three fourths of the world's population will live in cities by the end of this century.

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