Citizen Jane: Battle for the City. Public film screening and discussion
In 1960, Jane Jacob's book The Death and Life of Great American Cities sent shockwaves through the architecture and planning worlds, with its exploration of the consequences of modern planners' and architects' reconfiguration of cities. Jacobs was also an activist who was involved in many fights in mid-century New York to stop 'master builder' Robert Moses from running roughshod over the city. This film retraces the battles for the city as personified by Jacobs and Moses, as urbanization moves to the forefront of the global agenda. Many of the clues for formulating solutions to the dizzying array of urban issues can be found in Jacobs' prescient text, and a close second look at her thinking and writing about cities is very much in order. This film sets out to examine the city of today through the lens of one of its greatest champions.
The film (in English with French subtitles) will be followed by a bilingual discussion with Jonathan Durand Folco, professor at the School of Social Innovation, and Louise Renauld-George from the Jane’s Walk Ottawa committee.
Date: Wednesday, April 4, 2018
Time: 12:00 p.m. (noon)
Location: Amphitheatre G-1124
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/573387943018669/
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