The city center I walk has two malls, 20 coffee shops, 100's of businesses. Art, museums, outdoor parks with bandstands. Some people live there and rarely leave

The city center I walk has two malls, 20 coffee shops, 100's of businesses. Art, museums, outdoor parks with bandstands. Some people live there and rarely leave. Pretty different from driving to one mall I guess. And who goes to 1 mall to do their shopping? I know people who visits three grocery stores and a big-box store to get their groceries. Different places have different stuff, different prices. I guess that's all part of the car mentality. Takes as long to walk a mall, as drive to another one. The village/train idea is, make geography meaningful. So you go to a place to do a thing, invest value in the activity.