Title Brooklyn matters.

Publication Info.	New Day Films, 2007.
	[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2017.

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Description	1 online resource (streaming video file) (57 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Playing Time	005650
Description	digital
	video file MPEG-4 Flash
Note	Title from title frames.
Event	Originally produced by New Day Films in 2007.
Summary	Brooklyn Matters reveals how a few powerful men tried to tilt the Brooklyn landscape in favor of big real estate at the expense of urban livability. Disregarding time-honored urban planning principles and manipulating a desperate need in the African-American community for jobs and affordable housing, they pushed their own interests forward--luxury housing and a 20,000 seat sports arena. The film poses vital, timely questions that are relevant to cities across the country: What is the proper use of eminent domain? What role does environmental and economic justice play in government-sponsored projects? Who does represent the community? Should traffic-intensive projects be approved without mandatory mitigation measures? Should taxpayer money go to acquire private property for a sports arena? What and who determines if an area is "blighted?" Does the public have a right to know about the use of public finances in large-scale real estate projects?
System Details	Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subject	City planning -- New York (State) -- New York -- Citizen participation.
	Abuse of administrative power -- New York (State) -- New York.
	Eminent domain -- New York (State) -- New York
	Abuse of administrative power.
	City planning -- Citizen participation.
	Eminent domain.
	Politics and government.
	Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Politics and government.
	New York (State) -- New York.
	New York (State) -- New York -- Brooklyn.
Genre	Documentary films.
Added Author	Hill, Isabel, film director.
	New Day Films (Firm), Distributor.
	Kanopy (Firm), Distributor.
Music No.	1295225 Kanopy

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