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Displacing Blackness - Planning, Power, and Race in Twentieth-Century Halifax (Paperback)
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Displacing Blackness - Planning, Power, and Race in Twentieth-Century Halifax (Paperback)
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Modern urban planning has long promised to improve the quality of
human life. But how is human life defined? Displacing Blackness
develops a unique critique of urban planning by focusing, not on
its subservience to economic or political elites, but on its
efforts to improve people's lives. While focused on
twentieth-century Halifax, Displacing Blackness develops broad
insights about the possibilities and limitations of modern
planning. Drawing connections between the history of planning and
emerging scholarship in Black Studies, Ted Rutland positions
anti-blackness at the heart of contemporary city-making. Moving
through a series of important planning initiatives, from a social
housing project concerned with the moral and physical health of
working-class residents to a sustainability-focused regional plan,
Displacing Blackness shows how race - specifically blackness - has
defined the boundaries of the human being and guided urban
planning, with grave consequences for the city's Black residents.
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