Almost like a one-block shopping mall, lined with fine greengrocers, meat markets and fish shops.
WINDOW SHOPPING Downtown Brisbane's main shopping street is the pedestrianised Queen Street Mall, lined with five shopping centres and two department stores.
SHOP Calle Toledo is like an old-school strip mall, lined with specialty shops of the most practical stripe.
Downtown Charlottesville — about a mile and a half away — is anchored by a brick pedestrian mall lined with locally owned shops, galleries and restaurants.
Shopping and restaurants are within 10 minutes; downtown Charlottesville, which has a brick pedestrian mall lined with historic buildings, is 15 minutes away.
Charlottesville, home to the University of Virginia, is a city of 41,000 with a downtown pedestrian mall lined with mom-and-pop shops, galleries and restaurants.
I spent the next day wandering around town, essentially a picturesque outdoor mall lined with tchotchke shops selling T-shirts, cowbootsoots and ceramic bandana-wearing coyotes.
For shoppers, that means a tighter timeframe in which to negotiate parking lots and mall lines.
Streaking down the centre of Vegas's historical Glitter Gulch gambling district, the Freemont Street Experience is a pedestrian mall lined with casinos and topped by a 450m-long canopy, which displays a six-minute light and sound show hourly.
There may be the odd pervert in the bunch, but to go into line looking for one is inviting more trouble than it's worth, much like everyone in the mall lining up their kids to sit on Santa's lap and assuming he's a molester.
