Preservation and Enhancement of the Image of Post-industrial Heritage

In order to recognize the outstanding universal value of industrial architectures and ruins, the attention is oriented towards those properties which have connection to the Industrial Revolution, but represent locally distinct industrial cultures or contamination of construction types. The studies - aimed at rehabilitation and enhancement of architectures of the industrial heritage - require to improve a cultural attitude in sharing knowledge, to promote environmental, cultural and social quality of the urban landscape, starting with the re-appropriation of history and memory. In summary, key factors and comparable processes between different countries, are emerging as a result of the analysis on an medium European industrial city - Turin, emblem of the automotive industry - and on international case studies, like Chelsea at Manhattan, North Adams in Massachusetts, Docklands of London and Bilbao, ―industrial parks in Shanghai.