Rat City

Rat City

How a landmark experiment in rat behavior changed the way we think about cities. In the decades following WWII, the American metropolis was in peril. Modern high rises hastily erected to replace slums became incubators of criminality, while civic unrest erupted across the nation. Enter John B. Calhoun, an ecologist employed b......
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How a landmark experiment in rat behavior changed the way we think about cities. In the decades following WWII, the American metropolis was in peril. Modern high rises hastily erected to replace slums became incubators of criminality, while civic unrest erupted across the nation. Enter John B. Calhoun, an ecologist employed by the National Institute of Mental Health to study the effects of overcrowding. Calhoun decided to focus his study on rats. From 1947 to 1977, Calhoun built a series of sprawling habitats in which a rat's every need was met--except space. As the enclosures became ever more crowded, resident rats began to react to social stress, culminating in the terrifying world of Universe 25: a rodent habitat where escalating social disorder collapsed to violent extinction. Did a similar fate await our own teeming cities? Jon Adams and Edmund Ramsden's Rat City is the first book to tell the story of maverick scientist Calhoun and his now-viral experiments. Following the rats
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During the 1960s, America is in turmoil: faced with rising crime, social upheaval, sexual deviancy, and civic unrest, blame increasingly falls on the pressures of overpopulation. The stress of city life is driving everyone mad. Enter John B. Calhoun, an ecologist-turned-psychologist employed by the National Institute of Mental Health to study the effects of crowding on rats. Over three decades, Calhoun builds a series of ''rodent utopias'' where every need is met - except space. Jon Adams and Edmund Ramsden''s Rat City is the first book to tell the story of John Calhoun and his rodent utopias, culminating in the terrifying world of Universe 25: a rodent habitat where the only strategy for survival is complete social withdrawal. Following the rats from the baiting pits of Victorian London to the laboratories of NIMH, and Calhoun from rural Tennessee to inner-city Baltimore, Rat City explores how his work informed the understanding of personal space, public housing, and debates about the
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During the 1960s, America is in turmoil: faced with rising crime, social upheaval, sexual deviancy, and civic unrest, blame increasingly falls on the pressures of overpopulation. The stress of city life is driving everyone mad. Enter John B. Calhoun, an ecologist-turned-psychologist employed by the National Institute of Mental Health to study the effects of crowding on rats. Over three decades, Calhoun builds a series of ''rodent utopias'' where every need is met - except space. Jon Adams and Edmund Ramsden''s Rat City is the first book to tell the story of John Calhoun and his rodent utopias, culminating in the terrifying world of Universe 25: a rodent habitat where the only strategy for survival is complete social withdrawal. Following the rats from the baiting pits of Victorian London to the laboratories of NIMH, and Calhoun from rural Tennessee to inner-city Baltimore, Rat City explores how his work informed the understanding of personal space, public housing, and debates about the animal urges underpinning human nature in mid-century America - while challenging the popular assumption that Calhoun''s deteriorating Rat Cities necessarily predicted a bleak future for humanity. Rat City is an enthralling mix of dystopian science and urban history whose relevance becomes more obvious as societies confront ecological collapse and social unrest in an increasingly crowded world.

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Oppdag 'Rat City' - En Fascinerende Reise gjennom Dyreriket

Dykk inn i den unike verden av Rat City, hvor vetenskap og samfunnsmessige observasjoner møtes. Denne boken tar deg med på en reise tilbake til 1960-tallet, en tid preget av sosial uro og en økende bevissthet om overbefolkning. Gå ikke glipp av sjansen til å utforske hvordan livet til rotter sa noe om vårt eget!

En Fantastisk Beretning om John B. Calhoun

Forfatterne Jon Adams og Edmund Ramsden gir oss innsikt i livet og arbeidet til John B. Calhoun, en innovativ økolog og psykolog som eksperimenterte med "rodent utopier." Over 30 år skapte han unike miljøer for rotter, hvor deres hver behov ble møtt - bortsett fra plass. Denne boken gir deg:

  • Historiske Perspektiver: Fra London til Baltimore, oppdag hvordan Calhouns arbeid endret vår forståelse av personlig rom og offentlig bolig.
  • Fascinerende Analyser: Lær om univers 25, et eksperiment som illustrerer hvordan rotter tilpasset seg trange forhold gjennom sosial tilbaketrekning.
  • Dystopisk Science: Dyk dypere inn i koblingen mellom det som skjedde i rottehabitater og bekymringer i vårt moderne samfunn.

Hvorfor Velge 'Rat City'?

Med sin rike blanding av urbane historier og vitenskapelige fakta, er Rat City ikke bare en bok for dyrelskere eller akademikere, men en viktig lesning for alle som ønsker å forstå hvordan miljøet former adferd. I en tid hvor verden møter økologiske utfordringer, gir denne boken nye perspektiver på hvordan overbefolkning kan påverke både dyr og mennesker.

Så, er du klar for å bli fascinert? Grip kopien av Rat City i dag og utforsk en del av vitenskapshistorien som fortsetter å være relevant i vår stadig mer befolkede verden!

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