The Marxist urbanist/geographer David Harvey often talks about the right to the city—meaning, who has the right to change and direct the city? Often it is the rich who have this right; they shape the city to be compatible with their economic interests. This city, however, is not compatible with the economic realities of those in the middle and at the bottom of society. This incompatibility leads to a struggle. The people at the top have all the rights, and those at the bottom and in the middle have few or no rights. The films featured in Northwest Film Forum's Remaking the Metropolis mini-festival—Florent Tillon's Detroit Wild City, Chad Freidrichs's The Pruitt-Igoe Myth, and Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley's Battle for Brooklyn—are documentaries that examine urban space as a battleground for the right to the city. In the beautiful and meditative Detroit Wild City, the huge and futuristic GM Renaissance Center is set against the rest of the city—which is mostly poor, decaying, and a mere memory of a glorious past. With The Pruitt-Igoe Myth, we enter the heart of a profoundly sad story about how modernism opened up the future for poor black Americans, and how suburbanization and deindustrialization closed that future; this documentary will break your heart and possibly restore your faith in the ideals of international modernism. Battle for Brooklyn presents a complex struggle between those at the top, those in the middle, and those at the bottom. Those at the top (Jay-Z, developers, the mayor) want to transform a section of Brooklyn into a profit-making machine. Those in the middle (mostly white) do not want to be displaced by this development. And those at the bottom (mostly black) have been bought by those at the top to politically promote the displacement of those in the middle. The documentary is fair and engaging from beginning to end. Northwest Film Forum, Oct 7–13.