{"product_id":"displacing-blackness","title":"Displacing Blackness","description":"\u003cp\u003eModern urban planning has long promised to improve the quality of human life. But how is human life defined? \u003ci\u003eDisplacing Blackness\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhile focused on twentieth-century Halifax, \u003ci\u003eDisplacing Blackness\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eDisplacing Blackness\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54222310375768,"sku":"9781487503567","price":89.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/displacing-blackness","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}