TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rutland,Ted
TI  - Displacing Blackness: Planning, Power, and Race in Twentieth-Century Halifax 
SN  - 9781487503567
AV  - NA9053.H76 .R885 2018
U1  - 307.1216 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - Black people
KW  - Nova Scotia
KW  - Halifax
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - City planning
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781487518233
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781487518233/original
ER  -