Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile

Taras Grescoe has written books that have changed the way we look at illicit substances, in The Devil’s Picnic, and how we think about the world’s seafood, in Bottomfeeder. In Straphanger, Grescoe hits the commuter road in a global quest to understand and illuminate the challenges of the post-automobile age.

Straphanger is not just another attack on automobiles and suburban sprawl but the most entertaining and most thorough examination of global car …