Rat City
Adams, Jon / Ramsden, Edmund
How one experiment in rat behavior effected the re-making of society in the post-WWII boom years.How did the famous rat experiments of John B. Calhoun come to influence the thought behind social design, understandings of urban decay and regeneration, city planning as social control, and ultimately around the malleability of human nature.In 1947, ecologist John B. Calhoun came from the backwoods of Tennessee to the back-alleys of Baltimore. The...