{"product_id":"emergent-city-dvd","title":"Emergent City (DVD)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PmZTpAH-lFM?si=b2xd-kaU3004b1eI\" title=\"YouTube video player\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmergent City\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a gripping, decade-in-the-making documentary that follows the high-stakes battle over Sunset Park, a working-class, immigrant neighborhood on Brooklyn's industrial waterfront. When a group of private developers acquires Industry City--a massive, aging complex of 16 industrial buildings--they propose a bold transformation into a gleaming \"innovation district.\" What follows is a tense and deeply human clash between community residents fighting to preserve their homes, jobs, and identity, and powerful real estate interests promising economic growth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAward winning filmmakers Kelly Anderson (Every Mother's Son) and Jay Arthur Sterrenberg (Brasslands) embed themselves in the fabric of the neighborhood, capturing intimate moments inside organizing meetings, city council offices, and public hearings. Through a patient, observational style, Emergent City brings viewers face-to-face with the slow grind of grassroots democracy as immigrant organizers, environmental justice advocates, and local leaders confront the machinery of urban redevelopment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe film refuses easy answers, instead revealing the complex layers of negotiation, hope, resistance, and compromise that define New York City's contested land politics. Voices on all sides--developers, politicians, and activists--are given space, allowing the story to unfold with nuance and urgency.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs climate concerns, housing instability, and economic inequality intersect on the industrial waterfront, Emergent City becomes more than a local story--it's a portrait of 21st-century urban transformation and the people fighting to shape its future from the ground up. A vital chronicle of civic engagement, the film asks: Who gets to decide what a city becomes?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MVD Visual","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44842391601352,"sku":"MVD19465D","price":17.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/8486\/3688\/files\/emergentcitydvd.jpg?v=1762907076","url":"https:\/\/videomatica.com\/es\/products\/emergent-city-dvd","provider":"Videomatica Ltd (since 1983)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}