Displacing Blackness: Planning, Power, and Race in Twentieth-Century Halifax

by Ted Rutland

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 148752272X
• ISBN13: 9781487522728
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher