Comments by "Zhi Han Lee" (@lzh4950) on "Can you build main streets in the suburbs?" video.

  1. Singapore's main downtown (Orchard Rd) meanwhile is a main street occupied by multiple shopping malls (but taller & with a smaller footprint than USA's strip malls), though older districts in or on the fringes of downtown (Chinatown, Little India, Kampong Glam, Joo Chiat, Tg Katong etc.) mainly have a small main street or multiple main streets in a grid pattern, lined with low-rise shophouses (shops on the ground floor and 1-2 storeys of offices (& apartments, more so in the past) above) Suburbs meanwhile tend to have 1 or a handful of shopping malls in each of their town centres, though their more peripheral areas (e.g. neighbourhood centres, which are essentially secondary town centres) may have smaller malls too. Older suburbs have "main squares" in those areas too - long snaking 2-5 storey buildings clustered around an open area just off the road, with shops and the ground floor & apartments above
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