Displacing Blackness - Planning, Power, and Race in Twentieth-Century Halifax (Relié)

It is precisely through targeted degradation and subjugation that planning seeks to promote a better form of life, either for the broader population or for the adversely affected residents themselves. In all cases, the line between lives improved and lives degraded is written most clearly and indelibly in the font of race. From the her nineteenth century to the present, evolving conceptions of race have shaped the meaning of the "life" that planning has sought to secure and nurture, and have contributed to planning outcomes that are racialized in both self-evident and surreptitious ways.
While Halifax planners' horrific overt war against the Mi'lanaq has ceased, the city's significant and longstanding Black population—descendants, for the most part, of people enslavedin Nova Scotia or the United experienced States—has modem planningg a as an unyielding source of imperilment and plunder.