Displacing blackness: Planning, power, and race in twentieth-century Halifax By Ted RutlandModern 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 peoples lives. While focused on twentieth century Halifax, Displacing Blackness develops broad insights about the possibilities and limitations of modern planning. Drawing