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Documentary on author and activist jane jacobs and her fight to preserve new yorks historic neighbourhoods in the 1960s. We also discuss matt tyrnauers other new yorkcentered documentary, citizen jane. Jacobs was also an activist, who was involved in many fights in midcentury new york, to stop. Arguably no one did more to shape understanding of the modern american city than jane jacobs, the visionary activist and author of the death and life of great american cities, who fought to preserve urban communities in the face of. This potent documentary reveals how prescient her ideas were.
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