“For a mall to be successful, it must give those within a feeling of comfort...This is provided by physically excluding activities or people that might prove disruptive or disturbing. The city downtown may be famous for producing a sense of surprise and excitement, of not knowing what is around the next corner. This is not the goal of the mall. Shopping malls studiously avoid and ban the unpredictable...no politicians or political parties, no street people, no dirt or clutter, no art that in any way might disturb or offend, no live or recorded music that is not preapproved...” (197)

(Palen, J. John. The Suburbs. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995. Print.)