{"product_id":"displacing-blackness-9781487522728","title":"Displacing Blackness","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eModern urban planning has long promised to improve the quality of human life. But how is human life defined? \u003ci\u003eDisplacing Blackness\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhile focused on twentieth-century Halifax, \u003ci\u003eDisplacing Blackness\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eDisplacing Blackness\u003c\/i\u003e shows how race  specifically blackness  has defined the boundaries of the human being and guided urban planning, with grav\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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409151205719,"sku":"9781487522728","price":29.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487522728.jpg?v=1730505652","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/displacing-blackness-9781487522728","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}