How America's 'Soft Power' is Shaping Mobility Around the World - And How Cities Like Tirana Are Resisting it - Streetsblog USA
Briefly

'When communism collapsed in Albania, that system was a psychopathic dictatorship which denied private property and denied religion... I grew up in a city with 17 cars just for the members of the Politburo... we became a hero of a city, with 170,000 cars and a million people.'
'For people to show to their neighbors that they made it in the rough world of capitalism, [they would] bring a car back home. [They'd] brag about it as a symbol of success, but this comes at a cost to urban living.'
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