The cities of Pittsburgh, Chicago, New York and many others provide an opportunity to study these methods because of their industrial building stocks, their postindustrial contexts and their current economic status.

The outcome of this thesis will be realized through the mixed use [re]project of an industrial building located in Pittsburgh: The Federal Cold Storage. This former industrial building will contribute to create a new neighborhood that will positively influence the environment, the people who live and/or work there. In order to better understand how a cold storage can be reused, I have analyzed four comparable examples of reused cold storages, similar by dimension to my project building. Therefore, the selected case studies are related to specific urban interventions that have been realized in the previous ten years and all linked to the topic of reuse of industrial buildings. Each case study includes a survey with the main information regarding the type of building, the reuse and the strategies of the redevelopment. The goal is to understand how they have been treated and redeveloped to give them and to their surrounding neighborhood a new use.