Stadtmacher*innen und Hansa48 zeigen: "Citizen Jane: Battle for the City" (Doku 2016, OmU)

In the organizer's words:

A very lively documentary about the debate about the future of the city of New York between the activist, architecture critic and author Jane Jacobs and the city planner Robert Moses in the 1960s.

In the 1950s and 1960s, urban planner Robert Moses had big plans for New York: run-down neighborhoods were to be leveled, new mega-housing buildings were to be built according to modernist ideals, and spacious highways were to direct the flow of urban traffic. The fact that this did not happen was due to a Canadian author and proto-urbanist named Jane Jacobs, who published the book "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" in 1960 and organized resistance to Moses' plans. In her view, cities became more liveable not through megalomaniacal architecture, but through small-scale, established neighborhoods and actively used public spaces. The dispute over the "good city" between Jacobs and Moses was thus the first in a long series that has continued right up to the present day.

Price information:

Admission: For a donation