>>1701589>do americans have no small shops interspersed throughout the area?No because that might bring black people on the bus and that is scary.
You gotta drive to a 'shopping center' that looks like a square with all the shops on each side facing inward toward a vast sea of asphalt.
Back in my kiddo days, these used to be more focused on walking, with no parking lot in the middle, more like a fountain, but now it's the opposite.
Here's what a shopping center in town used to look like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW5f5tsKgpU, pic related is what it is now.