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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.

Table of Contents
List of Figures Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction "Higher Living through Environment": The Reformers, the Slums, and the Emergence of Modern Urban Planning Planning the Town White: Comprehensive Planning, Scientific Racism, and the Destruction of Africville A Calibrated Rush for Progress: Urban Renewal, Anti-Blackness, and the Diverse Effects of a Totalizing Planning Project "A Place to Enjoy Oneself": Anti-Renewal Activism, Citizen Involvement, and the Limits of Urban Amenity Planning by Other Means: The Black United Front and the Struggle for Self-Determination Making Space for Homo economicus: Neoliberalism, Regional Planning, and the Boundaries of Economic Life Conclusion Notes Index

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      Publisher University of Toronto Press
      Published 2 May 2018
      ISBN-13 9781487503567
      978-1487503567
      ISBN-10 1487503563

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents
      List of Figures Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction "Higher Living through Environment": The Reformers, the Slums, and the Emergence of Modern Urban Planning Planning the Town White: Comprehensive Planning, Scientific Racism, and the Destruction of Africville A Calibrated Rush for Progress: Urban Renewal, Anti-Blackness, and the Diverse Effects of a Totalizing Planning Project "A Place to Enjoy Oneself": Anti-Renewal Activism, Citizen Involvement, and the Limits of Urban Amenity Planning by Other Means: The Black United Front and the Struggle for Self-Determination Making Space for Homo economicus: Neoliberalism, Regional Planning, and the Boundaries of Economic Life Conclusion Notes Index

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