Matt Tyrnauer
Corey Reeser
Jessica Van Garsse
Matt Tyrnauer
Robert Hammond
Chris Dapkins
Andrea Lewis
Daniel Morfesis
Jane Antonia Cornish
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2016
United States
92 min
Color, Black & White
In 1960 Jane Jacobs’ book The Death and Life of Great American Cities sent shockwaves through the architecture and planning worlds, with its exploration of the consequences of modern planners’ and architects’ reconfiguration of cities. Jacobs was also an activist, who was involved in fights in mid-century New York to stop ‘master builder’ Robert Moses from running roughshod over the city. This film retraces the battles for the city as personified by Jacobs and Moses, as urbanization moves to the very front of the global agenda.
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