[Denny]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TommyJefferson', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Denny', 'C')ontrast this to the sad state of affairs in New Orleans in 2005.

[basil_hayden]

What can be done about the inner cities spirit?

Same as the Middle East...

Start handing out more automatic and semiautomatic weapons and boatloads of ammo. For free.

People in rural communities are much more aware of their surroundings, while city folk are aware of how good they look in their new car, suit or cell phone (yes I generalize).

[syncline]

The "inner city" populations are in an evolutionary sense, winners - armed, highly fertile. and expanding in numbers. You childless geeks should ask yourselves what can be done to help you.

[max_power29]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('syncline', 'T')he "inner city" populations are in an evolutionary sense, winners - armed, highly fertile. and expanding in numbers.[because of government welfare] You childless geeks should ask yourselves what can be done to help you.

[holmes]

ALL the nanny state dependents are done. In fact all the nanny state corporate, buerocracy, dependents, etcc are on the streets in due time. They are incapable of supporting themselves. They only know food is grown in the conveniance stores, liquer stores and grocery stores. The nanny state supporters are cruel and brutal and racist. They speak like they are so compasionate and loving and nurturing to their poo and downtrodden slaves and voter blocks. ha WE see through them like a window. They have created a massive popualtion density that will die off brutally and violent. Ah yes they love all their little slaves. Many will migrate into the land after the cities are sacked to be met with starvation, fatigue and death.

[holmes]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('syncline', 'T')he "inner city" populations are in an evolutionary sense, winners - armed, highly fertile. and expanding in numbers. You childless geeks should ask yourselves what can be done to help you.

[bshirt]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('holmes', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('syncline', 'T')he "inner city" populations are in an evolutionary sense, winners - armed, highly fertile. and expanding in numbers. You childless geeks should ask yourselves what can be done to help you.

[lotrfan55345]

There have been lots of cases for urban gentrification. Look at San Fransisco, Harlem, etc. Sometimes, a mess can get fixed.

[Tyler_JC]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('lotrfan55345', 'T')here have been lots of cases for urban gentrification. Look at San Fransisco, Harlem, etc. Sometimes, a mess can get fixed.

[Chaparral]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Shannymara', '
')Gentrification isn't fixing a mess, it's sweeping the mess off into another corner or under the rug.

[ccricers]

In Chicago, Mayor Daley had the notion of setting up "mixed income housing" but I don't think the idea ever went into full stages of production. I would imagine that such a thing won't work, as the demographics would just automatically spiral down to the lowest income. And those in higher economic classes would prefer to live in places where they come with the least contact of lower classes due to their fear of crime.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('max_power29', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('syncline', 'T')he "inner city" populations are in an evolutionary sense, winners - armed, highly fertile. and expanding in numbers.[because of government welfare] You childless geeks should ask yourselves what can be done to help you.

[Denny]

I wonder, back in the Roman toimes, if the city dwellers who all came to rely on the bread and circuses given by the empror were the first to perish when the SHTF and the vandals started ripping down the glory of Rome.

[Baldwin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Denny', 'I') wonder, back in the Roman toimes, if the city dwellers who all came to rely on the bread and circuses given by the empror were the first to perish when the SHTF and the vandals started ripping down the glory of Rome.

[Mircea]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jack', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Denny', 'W')hat is it about America's inner cities, the families and the education of people, that so many have lost the ability to fend for themselves, or plan ahead?

[Jack]

A similar experiment, actually.

Add a couple of side cages with small entry-ways.

It turned out that an alpha rat took over each side cage, along with some associated females. The antisocial behavior you mention took place in the main cage. The small cages remained relatively comfortable.

I regret that I don't have a citation; it would be interesting to review.

But your experiment is fascinating. I don't suppose you'd have a reference I could look at to read more?

[Plantagenet]

The research on rat overcrowding was done by John B. Calhoun

http://www.friends.org/issues/density.html

"Hypersexuality. Homosexuality.
Child neglect. Assault.
Cannibalism.

These were the "social pathologies" caused by the crowding of Norway rats, according to research by John R. Calhoun, published in Scientific American in February, 1962.

Calhoun's rat crowding research reinforced longstanding anti-urban prejudices held by Americans. By the beginning of the 20th century, when many Americans thought of big cities, they thought of disease, government corruption, and tenements.... Norway rats themselves symbolized urban slums.

Within a few years of Calhoun's article, America's inner cities erupted in riots. The press and pop psychologists looked to Calhoun's rat research for an explanation of these urban conflicts based on human psychology and urban density, ignoring the obvious roots of unrest in racism and unfair public policies.

Today, in debates over the strategy of promoting more compact urban development, critics make—and the media accepts—unchallenged assertions that increases in density lead to social problems and crime, invoking the common memory of Calhoun's famous article.

Density pathologies debunked

But Calhoun's research, as applied to human settlements, has been largely discredited in the last twenty years.