When people in population centers in other countries walk those distances they may weave from a store into another, along the way. Perhaps that's a reason those

When people in population centers in other countries walk those distances they may weave from a store into another, along the way. Perhaps that's a reason those distances seem so very far in America, they're boring, visually barren and barren of things to do, there aren't street cafes where a friend or acquaintance might be found by chance. Even though a suburbs sidewalk is just as "walkable" mechanically, it's much less fun. We don't want simply walkable streets, we don't want to think about walking at all. In modernity, health is an activity and consumer demographic onto itself. Seeing someone jogging in outfit has the air of class that a person simply walking to a destination doesn't have when we look at them, even though the person walking has healthy exercise figured, not as part of their lifestyle, but guaranteed in it.