Ted Rutland

Displacing Blackness

Planning, Power, and Race in Twentieth-Century Halifax

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781487522728
• ISBN-10: 148752272X
• Artikelnr.: 49442204

Autorenporträt

Ted Rutland is an associate professor in the Department of Geography, Planning, and Environment at Concordia University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1. 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-Determination
7. Making Space for Homo economicus: Neoliberalism, Regional Planning,
and the Boundaries of Economic Life
8. Conclusion
Notes
Index