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The Car Culture Crash

How Cars Fit into Millennial Lives

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JAY GREW UP POOR. THE REAL KIND OF POOR, WHERE YOU CAN ONLY AFFORD to pay one bill each month so you choose whether to risk getting the water or the electricity cut off. His family didn’t have cable. They didn’t have a phone.

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Carmichael, M. (2013). The Car Culture Crash. In: BUYographics. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-51027-3_11

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