This film program is sold out.
The film highlights Jane Jacobs’ magisterial
1961 treatise The Death and Life of Great American Cities, in which she
single-handedly undercuts her era’s orthodox model of city planning,
exemplified by the massive Urban Renewal projects of New York’s “Master
Builder,” Robert Moses. Jacobs and Moses figure as two larger-than-life
personalities: Jacobs, a journalist with provincial origins, no formal training
in city planning, and scarce institutional authority seems at first glance to
share little in common with Moses, a high prince of government and urban theory
fully ensconced in New York’s halls of power and privilege. Yet both reveal
themselves to be master tacticians who, in the middle of the 20th century,
became locked in an epic struggle over the fate of the city. In three suspenseful
acts, Citizen Jane: Battle for the City gives audiences a
front row seat to this battle, and shows how two opposing visions of urban
greatness continue to ripple across the world stage, with unexpectedly high
stakes.
Director: Matt Tyrnauer
2016 / 92 min / USA
This feature film will be screened in the Museum's Auditorium.
1.5 LU (AIA)
The Architecture & Design Film Festival: D.C. is presented by the Revada Foundation, courtesy of the estates of Reva and David Logan.
$12 Museum | $10 Student | $15 Non-member | $125 All Access
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Image Credit: Mrs. Jane Jacobs, chairman of the Comm. to save the West Village holds up documentary evidence at press conference at Lions Head Restaurant at Hudson & Charles Streets. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.