Slum Clearance in Halifax

Slum Clearance in Halifax: the Role of Gordon Stephenson

Redeveloping or clearing blighted, slum housing was the key to eliminating slums (Greer, 1965, p. 15). The slum clearance programs of the ...

Urban Renewal photographs | Municipal Archives | Halifax

His urban renewal plan for the city (often described as "slum clearance") was focused on clearing run-down residential areas and redeveloping ...

Slum clearance and urban renewal | Canada Commons

Throughout the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, neighbourhoods across Canada and the world underwent slum clearance in the name of planned urban renewal.

View of The View from Jacob Street: Reframing Urban Renewal in ...

18 If identifying the slums of Halifax was easy, the city's Slum ... Slum Clearance and Public Housing Committee in 1954. “Why should the City ...

slum clearance+urban renewal - Jill Grant - Dalhousie University

In Halifax,. “slum clearance and redevelopment were the aspects of the ... The correlation between slums and crime was a primary motive in ...

Tour | Halifax's 'Urban Renewal' in the 1960s | Historic Nova Scotia

But these grants only covered the cost of slum clearance if new housing ... housing survey of Halifax and proposal for the city's redevelopment. Submitted ...

Gordon Stephenson and the 1957 Redevelopment Study of Halifax

Gordon Stephenson was brought in by Halifax Council in 1957 to develop a plan for slum clearance. Stephenson was considered to be an expert in urban renewal.

Halifax (NS). Slum Clearance and Public Housing Committee records

The Slum Clearance and Public Housing Committee, known to have been active in the early 1950s, reported to Council on the ongoing program of acquiring, ...

From Slums to Shopping Mall - Halifax's "urban renewal" and the ...

... slum clearance and the construction of new housing in its place. The ... Halifax were “blighted” with slums, which needed to be cleared away.

NOVA SCOTIA HIDES A RACIAL PROBLEM; Docile Negroes in ...

Article on racial situation in Halifax; living conditions in Negro slums of ... The Negroes, however, have organized to fight the city clearance plan ...

Friends of Halifax Common - Facebook

"The Ransacking of Britain” took place in Canada too. In Halifax the 1960s 'slum-clearances' in Cogswell flattened 2600 buildings and ...

Slum clearance in Halifax: The role of Gordon Stephenson - Lucidea

... , Reference Collection, 1820-. Slum clearance in Halifax: The role of Gordon Stephenson. Retrieval Code. 711.59 .P3. Dates of Creation. 2009. Physical ...

Halifax's new development projects must not repeat the wrongs ...

... removal of problematic housing. Cogswell presents a prime example of ... slum clearance in Halifax. Having trained under Swiss-French ...

Local Slums - Halifax - Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion

Local Slums. The overcrowded housing in towns and cities is one of the consequences of the Industrial Revolution, when workers needed to live close to the ...

Cogswell District building on anti-Black history - The Coast Halifax

The construction of the interchange was just one phase of a nation-wide era of “slum clearance” that lasted from the early 1940s to the late ' ...

Halifax Negro slum clearance ends soon; 1967 - Newspapers.com™

, : Halifax Negro Slum Clearance Ends Soon HALIFAX. N.S. (AP) -Once almost 4(!0 Negroes lived in Africville, a collection of rickoty century-old houses and ...

[Re]Presenting Halifax #4: Making the Case for Urban Renewal

Stephenson's study, widely-known as The Stephenson Report, was a manual for urban renewal and regeneration achieved through slum clearance.

The operation of whiteness and forgetting in Africville, a geography ...

Abstract (summary): In the 1960s the City of Halifax dismantled the black community of Africville under a program of urban renewal and 'slum clearance'.

The 1957 Master Plan for Halifax

Gordon Stephenson was brought in by Halifax Council in 1957 to develop a plan for slum clearance. Stephenson was considered to be an expert ...

Halifax's new development projects must not repeat the wrongs ...

... removal of problematic housing. Cogswell presents a prime example of ... slum clearance in Halifax. Having trained under Swiss-French ...