A popular site for the early shopping centres in the United States was ____ .

The shopping centre emerged in the early 1900s in the
suburbs that encircled American cities. Suburbs of that
time tended to be chiefly residential and to depend on the
traditional city centres for shopping. The first suburban
commercial centres had three identifiable features; they
consisted of a number of stores built and leased by a
single developer; they were usually situated at an
important intersection, and they provided plenty of free,
offstreet parking. These "shopping villages" resembled
small-town shopping districts, both in their architecture
which was carefully traditional, and in their layout, which
integrated them into the surrounding neighbourhood. The
stores faced the street and the parking lots were usually in
the rear.