Citizen Jane: Battle for the City
Apr 21, 2017 | IMDB 6.8
92 min Watch NowDocumentary
Writer and urban activist Jane Jacobs fights to save historic New York City during the ruthless redevelopment era of urban planner Robert Moses in the 1960s.
Documentary
Writer and urban activist Jane Jacobs fights to save historic New York City during the ruthless redevelopment era of urban planner Robert Moses in the 1960s.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Québec...?
Alternate Spaces
The Noise of Time
Grand Littoral
Douce France
Amora
Ellas en la ciudad
Operation: Jane Walk
Jaime Lerner - Uma História de Sonhos
A Capital Plan
Le Corbusier, l'architecte du bonheur
Amancio Williams
City Limits
La Alameda
Metropolitan Casablanca
Alliances Terrestres
Snow Fighters
Bologna: An Ancient City for a New Society
Co-op Housing: The Best Move We Ever Made
Farewell Oak Street
SIMILAR MOVIES
Québec...?
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1967
This short documentary film is a fascinating portrait of urban and rural Quebec in the late 1960s, as the province entered modernity. The collective work produced for the Quebec Ministry of Industry and Commerce calls on several major Quebec figures.Alternate Spaces
IMDB 0 | Dec , 2022
A short documentary on the River Ouse, following it downstream from Lewes to Newhaven, meditating on the surrounding area.The Noise of Time
IMDB 7 | Jun , 2024
In the town of Xoco, the spirit of an old villager awakens in search of its lost home. Along its journey, the ghost discovers that the town still celebrates its most important festivities, but also learns that the construction of a new commercial complex called Mítikah will threaten the existence of both the traditions and the town itself.Grand Littoral
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2003
Valérie Jouve is a weel-known photographer, and Grand Littoral is her first film. Out the outskirts of Marseille, in a landscape criss-crossed by motorways, railways and srubland paths, some figures that seem to be from her famous photos passby and bump into each other. They act as our guides in a tour without beginning or end. How do you look at a place without taking possession of it? How do you describe characters without confining them within a given plot? How do you make the transition from still shots to moving pictures? this brief, musical film leaves us asking these and other unresolved questions.Douce France
IMDB 5.6 | Jun , 2021
Amina, Sami and Jennyfer are high school students in the Paris suburbs, in 93. At the initiative of 3 of their teachers, they embark on an unexpected investigation into a gigantic leisure park project which involves concreting agricultural land near their homes. But can we have the power to act on a territory when we are 17 years old? Funny and intrepid, these new citizens take us to meet residents of their neighborhood, property developers, farmers and even elected officials of the National Assembly. A joyful quest that challenges conventional wisdom and revives our connection to the land!Amora
IMDB 0 | Oct , 2025
Ellas en la ciudad
IMDB 8 | May , 2025
"Ellas en la ciudad" (Them in the City) focuses on the first settlers of the neighborhoods on the outskirts of Seville. Through their stories, we discover that they have been the backbone of a city that has turned its back on them.Operation: Jane Walk
IMDB 4.7 | Mar , 2018
The war zone of a dystopian multiplayer shooting game is used to embark some urban explorers on a winter walk, avoiding the combats whenever possible, as peaceful observers, inhabitants of a digital world, which is a detailed replica of Midtown Manhattan.Jaime Lerner - Uma História de Sonhos
IMDB 0 | Sep , 2016
A Capital Plan
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1949
This short documentary features a portrait of Ottawa in the mid-20th century, as the nascent Canadian capital grew with force but without direction. Street congestion, air pollution, and rail traffic were all the negative results of a city that had grown without being properly planned. French architect and urban designer Jacques Gréber stepped in to create a far-sighted plan for the future development of Ottawa. With tracks moved, factories relocated, and neighbourhoods redesigned as separate communities, Ottawa became the capital city of true beauty and dignity we know today.Le Corbusier, l'architecte du bonheur
IMDB 10 | Dec , 1957
Documentary devoted to the architectural and urban planning designs of Le Corbusier. The architect supports his in-depth reflection on the city and its necessary adaptation to modern life with plans, drawings and images, particularly Paris, whose revolutionary development dreamed of by Le Corbusier is exhibited here. Its first projects will remain at the stage of a model: the modernization plan for the city of Algiers. Some will be created by other architects: Ministry of Education in Rio de Janeiro, UN Palace in New York. From the post-war period in less than 10 years, Le Corbusier created large housing units in Marseille, Nantes, a chapel in Ronchamps, a factory in Saint-Dié, a town in Chandigarh in India. Through diagrams, the architect presents his theory of the "radiant city", the mathematical key modulor of his work as well as his project for reorganizing the countryside, industrial and urban cities into a grouping around a cooperative system.Amancio Williams
IMDB 5.3 | Nov , 2013
A biography documentary of the Argentine modernist architect Amancio Williams.City Limits
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1971
Author and activist Jane Jacobs talks about the problems and virtues of North American cities.La Alameda
IMDB 0 | Mar , 1978
Following a commission from the College of Architects of Seville, for the production of a documentary about the La Alameda de Hércules area of the Sevillian capital in a debate about its possible destiny and urban planning challenges, the filmmaker Juan Sebastián Bollaín, offers this visionary realistic and critical, at the same time experimental and iconoclastic, portrait of the problem of the transformation of historic centers in our cities.Metropolitan Casablanca
IMDB 0 | Jun , 2020
Casablanca, vibrant and diverse, always ahead of its time, is the star of this exceptional show bringing together leading speakers and contributors to tell the story, experience the present, and build the future of Metropolitan Casablanca.Alliances Terrestres
IMDB 0 | Jul , 2024
Snow Fighters
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1957
A close-up of a snow-bound city, and the men, money and machinery it takes to dig it out.Bologna: An Ancient City for a New Society
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1974
Exemplary in its town planning and administration, Bologna has been transformed into a city that is avant-garde, both socially and culturally, yet still preserves its historical roots.Co-op Housing: The Best Move We Ever Made
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1975
Canada is facing a housing crisis, and cooperative housing might be a part of the solution.Farewell Oak Street
IMDB 0 | Jun , 1953
This documentary presents a before-and-after picture of people in a large-scale public housing project in Toronto. Due to a housing shortage, they were forced to live in squalid, dingy flats and ramshackle dwellings on a crowded street in Regent Park North; now they have access to new, modern housing developments designed to offer them privacy, light and space.