Population: A Game of Man and Society
- 1971
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Small JPG1200 x 992px — 232 KBLarge JPG2880 x 2381px — 880 KBFull-sized JPG9298 x 7688px — 6.3 MBOriginal fileTIFF — 9298 x 7688px — 205 MBA rectangular orange board game box with an all-over illustration of a crowd. Gameplay proceeds as players roll the dice and move their pawns around the gameboard. Each player starts with seven Population Units, two Agricultural Production Units, and eight hundred dollars. Players draw event cards that either lead players to make a decision, gain or lose money, or gain population. The box contains 1 game board, an instruction booklet, 3 decks of cards, 1 pad of detachable scoring sheets, play money, 2 plastic dice, and 12 plastic rings.
Urban Systems, Inc. was a consulting and research firm, whose president, Richard H. Rosen, was an ecologist and environmental engineer. While teaching undergraduate air pollution classes at Harvard, Rosen produced a number of anti-pollution board games for educational purposes.
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Science History Institute. Population: A Game of Man and Society. Photograph, 2022. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/w1c85cm.
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