Time for another look? Jane Jacobs vs Robert Moses
The conflict between Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses (who considered himself the master builder of New York City and later New York State) is an old one, dating from the 1960's, but it continues to be relevant today. At the moment (March 2025), Citizen Jane: Battle for the City is available to stream for free from Hoopla, a media library that is available to all Ottawa Public Library cardholders. Link to the title on Hoopla.
View the trailer for Citizen Jane on YouTube.
Discussion and reviews of Citizen Jane: Battle for the City
Video introduction on TVO, by Mikael Colville-Andersen, host of The Life Size City, introduces a number of documentaries on Canada's housing crisis in a series called The Housing Gap. Episode 4 discusses Citizen Jane.
Reviews:
New York Times (sorry, paywall)
A shorter video on essentially the same topic, the PBS American Masters episode entitled Urban Fight of the Century: Jane Jacobs vs Robert Moses, is available to stream from YouTube.