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Strip malls inside
Hong Kong has some huge indoor malls with corridors fifteen or twenty feet wide, and low ceilings. At some other malls, such as Ocean Galleries Mall, the corridoes are narrow and hurrying crowds of people look straight ahead without interaction or detour. They know what they want. Such indoor malls are like strip malls on American highways, built for getting to what you want, and getting out, with just a bit of seduction to impulse buying on the way. There is no pretense of a place of public assembly or interactions. Such malls are not markets with street life, they are private spaces for maximum flow.