For those questioning city planning policies that displace longtime residents and create urban landscapes dominated by cars and concrete, we’ve got a film for you.
Jane Jacobs, who took on these forces decades ago, is the subject of “Citizen Jane: The Battle for the City,” a documentary which is screening tomorrow at The Parkway theater and running there for a week.
The film tells the story of Jacobs’ battle with developers who threatened to demolish New York City’s most historic neighborhoods and offers a lesson, as the producers put it, “in the power of the average person to push back.”
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