Each of the various cold towns are fenced and barricaded. Though, security is tight, some have been occasionally infiltrated on a limited basis, and so some details exist. The cold towns are setup in an utilitarian, though dreary, manner. Streets are laid out on a rectangular grid.
Buildings are typically featureless and low to the ground.
Windowless utility buildings are set up at the edge of town, with the residential section in the center. Automobiles are rarely used within the cold towns. Most cold towns are equipped with a rekindling house, shopping center, and commissary. The shopping centers are typical of those found elsewhere, except that they appear completely automated. Presumably, deads have better things to do with their second lives then wait on other deads.