In 'Paved Paradise,' Henry Grabar takes on the automobile's profound effect on L.A. and the world through the particular lens of parking.
at Slate, is more storyteller than economist. That’s OK. He lays out the issue cleanly and clearly. His flair for writing will spur wider interest in the subject. Whether economic common sense can prevail over American car culture is yet to be determined.
That darker truth hidden beneath the mundane humor of workaday parking struggles becomes a pattern in the book.Siddharth Kara’s ‘Cobalt Red’ is a powerful exposé of cobalt mining, which powers green technologies even as it destroys Congo’s poorest people. The enforcement came from truck owners who relied on thuggery to maintain their squatting rights. In one incident, a woman driver was spit on, and the windshield of the spitter’s truck was bashed in by a garden hoe. Mister Softee drivers began avoiding Midtown Manhattan, afraid of getting beaten up.
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