%0 Journal Article
%T The View from Jacob Street: Reframing Urban Renewal in Postwar Halifax
%A Loo
%A Tina
%J -
%D 2019
%X By focusing on the period immediately following planner Gordon Stephenson¡¯s redevelopment study of Halifax in 1957 and before the start of the Africville relocation in 1964, we gain a different appreciation of the scale of displacement, the interplay of race and class in shaping people¡¯s vulnerability to urban renewal, and the power of the municipal state. Understanding these early redevelopment efforts also provides us with a different perspective on Africville. The city¡¯s actions there were shaped by shifting attitudes towards racism and an attempt, albeit inadequate, to rectify it by focusing on one of its most visible manifestations ¨C segregation
%U https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/acadiensis/2019-v48-n2-acadiensis05148/1067766ar/