Citizen Jane: Battle For The City - 2016 - 7/10

Jane Jacobs takes on Robert Moses, staunch believer in urban renewal (ie: negro removal).
In the 50’s and 60’s, Moses was extremely influential and powerful, annihilating neighborhoods, replacing them with overpasses, bypasses, highways. Cars vs people.
Rough, albeit safe, blocks were leveled and high rise tenements erected. Crime exploded.
This occurred not only in Gotham, but across the States.
Moses crushed opposition: business owners, neighborhood groups, politicos.
Jacobs and her supporters took his machine on, over and over.
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Note: I have been in numerous battles against the faceless, imperious palisade.
City Hall, highway developers, zoning flunkies, employing different tactics depending.
Sometimes victory, other times defeat. You must contest, however, (not mere petitions, either, get your ass in motion) or they will simply walk over your rights.
Jacobs is inspirational, and essential viewing for anyone taking on "the man”.