--- title: Here’s How to Reinvent Shopping Malls description: These are today's best ideas canonical: https://time.com/4457328/heres-how-to-reinvent-shopping-malls/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-18T16:00:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:35.700Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Here's How to Reinvent Shopping Malls og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4457328/heres-how-to-reinvent-shopping-malls/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's How to Reinvent Shopping Malls twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Here's How to Reinvent Shopping Malls by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Aug 18, 2016 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Aug 18, 2016 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Can malls be reinvented — and saved?**](http://www.racked.com/2016/8/2/12290506/american-malls-south-coast-plaza) By Stephie Grob Plante in Racked **2\.** [**Beyond Brexit: The Greek economy is still weighing down Europe.**](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/aug/13/greek-economy-still-spiralling-down-year-after-crisis-declared-over) By Helena Smith in the Guardian **3\.** [**Remember when selling out was a bad thing?**](http://qz.com/751171/millennials-are-totally-cool-with-selling-out/) By Catherine Baab-Muguira in Quartz **4\.** [**Why do we believe homelessness is linked to mental illness?**](http://daily.jstor.org/is-there-really-a-link-between-mental-illness-and-homelessness/) By Livia Gershon in JSTOR Daily **5\.** [**These smart dumpsters can tell a garbage truck when they’re full — and save cities money.**](http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/could-san-francisco-startup-transform-garbage-collecting-180960115/) By Brittany Shoot in Smithsonian  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4457328/heres-how-to-reinvent-shopping-malls/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4457328/heres-how-to-reinvent-shopping-malls/"},"headline":"Here's How to Reinvent Shopping Malls","datePublished":"2016-08-18T16:00:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:35.700Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4457328/heres-how-to-reinvent-shopping-malls/","keywords":["Innovation","Employment","Greece","Garbage","mall","homeless"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4457328/heres-how-to-reinvent-shopping-malls/","name":"Here's How to Reinvent Shopping Malls"}}]}] ```