Displacing Blackness : : Planning, Power, and Race in Twentieth-Century Halifax / / Ted Rutland.
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. Whil...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (400 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1. Introduction
- 2. "Higher Living through Environment": The Reformers, the Slums, and the Emergence of Modern Urban Planning
- 3. Planning the Town White: Comprehensive Planning, Scientific Racism, and the Destruction of Africville
- 4. A Calibrated Rush for Progress: Urban Renewal, Anti-Blackness, and the Diverse Effects of a Totalizing Planning Project
- 5. "A Place to Enjoy Oneself": Anti-Renewal Activism, Citizen Involvement, and the Limits of Urban Amenity
- 6. Planning by Other Means: The Black United Front and the Struggle for Self-Determination
- 7. Making Space for Homo economicus: Neoliberalism, Regional Planning, and the Boundaries of Economic Life
- 8. Conclusion
- Notes
- Index