{"product_id":"displacing-blackness-9781487503567","title":"Displacing Blackness","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList 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","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409140490583,"sku":"9781487503567","price":62.05,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487503567.jpg?v=1730505587","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/displacing-blackness-9781487503567","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}