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Laffoley, Steven Edwin.
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Laffoley, Steven Edwin.
Communities -- Nova Scotia -- Halifax -- History -- 20th century.
Urban renewal -- Nova Scotia -- Halifax -- History -- 20th century.
Halifax (N.S.) -- History -- 20th century.
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Mean streets : in search of forgotten Halifax, 1953-1967 / Steven Laffoley.
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Laffoley, Steven Edwin.
Pottersfield Press, 2020.
Call #:
971
.6225
L163m
Subjects
Communities -- Nova Scotia -- Halifax -- History -- 20th century.
Urban renewal -- Nova Scotia -- Halifax -- History -- 20th century.
Halifax (N.S.) -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9781989725115 (pbk.)
Description:
154 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Summary:
"Following the Second World War, politicians and planners across North America set out to reimagine their cities. They proposed that cities tear down great swaths of their aged, derelict, and decaying homes; destroy antiquated, dilapidated buildings; and tear up sordid streets in an effort they called "slum clearance"? Of course, these "slums" were also communities. By the late 1950s, Halifax's movement for urban renewal became a cresting wave that ultimately wiped away whole neighbourhoods that had stood witness to two hundred years of history. And when the urban renewal wave finally retreated, what was left behind were new spaces like Scotia Square, Mulgrave Park, Cogswell Interchange, and Uniacke Square, among others. But just as often only memory was left of a good many of the communities of Halifax, including Africville. After discovering some fascinating photographs taken before the urban renewal, award-winning author Steven Laffoley set off in search of a city that existed before the "slum clearance" of the 1960s, to see what was, in fact, gained and what was lost in the destruction of Halifax's "mean streets."--From publisher.
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