“Citizen Jane: Battle for the City” explores the influential role of urban activist and author Jane Jacobs in shaping modern urban planning. The film centers on her fight against Robert Moses, a powerful city planner in mid-20th-century New York, whose large-scale developments threatened the fabric of local communities. Jacobs’s 1960 book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, challenged mainstream urban planning ideas and became a foundational text for understanding cities.