Green zones can reduce the temperature of cities by 2-3 degrees, creating more comfortable living environments for the future. Oasis is a green zone design concept that reinterprets the space of the shopping mall for ‘social shopping’. A park-like tropical setting of free-flowing, open-air commercial offerings, augmented by lush foliage and ponds, provides a more humanizing and sustainable model for community engagement – replacing the insular, hermetic mall spaces of the past.