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Rutland, Ted, 1977-
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City planning -- Social aspects -- Nova Scotia -- Halifax -- History -- 20th century.
Blacks -- Nova Scotia -- Halifax -- History -- 20th century.
Power -- Nova Scotia -- Halifax -- History -- 20th century.
Halifax (N.S.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
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Rutland, Ted, 1977-
City planning -- Social aspects -- Nova Scotia -- Halifax -- History -- 20th century.
Blacks -- Nova Scotia -- Halifax -- History -- 20th century.
Power -- Nova Scotia -- Halifax -- History -- 20th century.
Halifax (N.S.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
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Displacing Blackness :
power
, planning, and race in twentieth-century
Halifax
/ Ted Rutland.
by
Rutland, Ted, 1977-
University of Toronto Press, 2018.
Call #:
307.1216 R979d
Subjects
City planning
--
Social aspects
--
Nova
Scotia
--
Halifax
--
History
--
20th
century
.
Blacks
--
Nova
Scotia
--
Halifax
--
History
--
20th
century
.
Power
--
Nova
Scotia
--
Halifax
--
History
--
20th
century
.
Halifax
(N.S.)
--
Race relations
--
History
--
20th
century
.
ISBN:
9781487522728 (pbk.)
Description:
xiv, 384 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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 A 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-Determination7 Making Space for Homo economicus: Neoliberalism, Regional Planning, and the Boundaries of Economic Life; 8 Conclusion.
Summary:
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.
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307.1216 R979d
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Adult Black Nonfiction
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