I highly recomment the documentary "Citizen Jane: Battle for the City" (2016).
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I highly recomment the documentary "Citizen Jane: Battle for the City" (2016).
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3699354/Anyone involved in any sort of #UrbanPlanning should watch it & learn from Jane Jacobs' activism. She spoke out against urban planning & slum clearances that ignored the needs of people. #UX people might even get inspired by her.
You can dig deeper in her book "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_and_Life_of_Great_American_Cities. It is still in active use as I understood from the documentary.
She went up against Robert Moses, who sounds like a Trump-like character who wanted to build sterile landscapes designed for cars, not people. Rather soulless, in fact. Jacobs & others stopped him, but unfortunately, many around the world adopted his ideas. which suddenly explains all those blocks of soulless housing you see from other big cities, Those blocks that have often been dynamited decades after being built because they failed. #cinemastodon #documentary #filmstriben
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I highly recomment the documentary "Citizen Jane: Battle for the City" (2016).
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3699354/Anyone involved in any sort of #UrbanPlanning should watch it & learn from Jane Jacobs' activism. She spoke out against urban planning & slum clearances that ignored the needs of people. #UX people might even get inspired by her.
You can dig deeper in her book "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_and_Life_of_Great_American_Cities. It is still in active use as I understood from the documentary.
She went up against Robert Moses, who sounds like a Trump-like character who wanted to build sterile landscapes designed for cars, not people. Rather soulless, in fact. Jacobs & others stopped him, but unfortunately, many around the world adopted his ideas. which suddenly explains all those blocks of soulless housing you see from other big cities, Those blocks that have often been dynamited decades after being built because they failed. #cinemastodon #documentary #filmstriben
@kmdk Jane Jacobs is still very much in use and I love that book. Huge inspiration for Jan Gehl’s work on “life between the buildings”.
Will watch the documentary.
