Displacing Blackness(English, Electronic book text, Rutland Ted)

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Displacing Blackness(English, Electronic book text, Rutland Ted) is written by Rutland Ted and published by University of Toronto Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1487518234 (ISBN 10) and 9781487518233 (ISBN 13).

Modern urban planning has long promised to improve the quality of human life. But how is human life defined? Displacing Blackness 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. 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. 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, Displacing Blackness shows how race - specifically blackness - has defined the boundaries of the human being and guided urban planning, with grave consequences for the city's Black residents.