Rat City: Overcrowding and Urban Derangement in the Rodent Universes of John B. Calhoun by Adams, Jon
Rat City: Overcrowding and Urban Derangement in the Rodent Universes of John B. Calhoun by Adams, Jon

Rat City: Overcrowding and Urban Derangement in the Rodent Universes of John B. Calhoun

"In Rat City, Adams and Ramsden unearth an entire hidden history of the twentieth century city and...
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Rat City: Overcrowding and Urban Derangement in the Rodent Universes of John B. Calhoun by Adams, Jon

Rat City: Overcrowding and Urban Derangement in the Rodent Universes of John B. Calhoun

$65.50
Rat City: Overcrowding and Urban Derangement in the Rodent Universes of John B. Calhoun by Adams, Jon

Rat City: Overcrowding and Urban Derangement in the Rodent Universes of John B. Calhoun

$65.50
Author: Jon Adams
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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"In Rat City, Adams and Ramsden unearth an entire hidden history of the twentieth century city and its anxieties; a fascinating and deeply researched book, as well as a vital reference point for our own age of urban stress." Des Fitzgerald, author of The City Of Today Is A Dying Thing

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 from the baiting pits of Victorian London to the laboratories of NIMH, and Calhoun from rural Tennessee to inner-city Baltimore, Rat City is an enthralling mix of dystopian science and urban history.

Social design, housing infrastructure, a burgeoning current of racism in city planning: Calhoun influenced them all, and Rat City connects Calhoun's work to the politics of personal space, the looming threat of global overpopulation, and the eclipsing of environmental psychology by pharmaceutical psychiatry.

As the "war on rats" continues to be waged around the world, and our post-pandemic society reevaluates the necessity of urban living, the riveting story of Rat City is more relevant than ever.

Author: Jon Adams, Edmund Ramsden
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Published: 07/09/2024
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
ISBN: 9781685890995

About the Author
Edmund Ramsden is an historian of science at Queen Mary University of London, with an interest in the history of the social, behavioral and biological sciences in the 20th century. Jon Adams is a former BBC New Generation Thinker and author of Interference Patterns: Literary Study, Scientific Knowledge, and Disciplinary Autonomy. They both previously worked at the London School of Economics, where they began collaborating on the history and influence of John B. Calhoun's rodent crowding experiments.
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