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• Title:Displacing blackness : planning, power, and race in twentieth-century Halifax / Ted Rutland.
  
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• Variant Title:Planning, power, and race in twentieth-century Halifax
  
• Author/Creator:Rutland, Ted, 1977- author.
  
• Published/Created:Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: HT169.C32 H35 2018
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:City planning--Social aspects--Nova Scotia--Halifax--History--20th century.
  Black people--Nova Scotia--Halifax--History--20th century.
  Power (Social sciences)--Nova Scotia--Halifax--History--20th century.
  Halifax (N.S.)--Race relations--History--20th century.
  
• Description:xiv, 384 pages : illustrations, maps, 1 plan ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:"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 and guided urban planning, with grave consequences for the city's Black residents."-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781487503567 hardcover
  1487503563 hardcover
  9781487522728 paperback
  148752272X paperback
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 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. 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.