Quick Overview. 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.
Displacing Blackness: Planning, power, and race in twentieth-century Halifax. Ted Rutland . Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Planning, and Environment Concordia University . Urban planning has long been seen as a way of improving human life through spatial means. But what if planning’s commitment to human life is the cause of …
6/12/2018 · Written by Ted Rutland , Associate Professor, Concordia University Displacing Blackness was published by University of Toronto Press in 2018 Modern urban planning has long promised to improve the quality of human life. We all know, however, that this promise has not always been fulfilled and that, indeed, planning has inflicted great harm on certain communities.
1/1/2018 · 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.
