Almeida et al., [2005] connected urban growth also to economic growth, assuming that
there is a relationship between people’s economic status, available areas to be built up and
expansion of urbanized area. It isn’t easy to establish such relationship, because numerous
economic parameters should be considered: for instance, per capita income, which however
presents the disadvantage to average the data. To overtake this problem, it is possible to relate
the built-up area with the number of working persons only, for the specific reason that they
are mainly responsible for new construction. Referring to the study area, the total amount
of workers have been extracted from the last four census data available (ISTAT, Industry
and services census 97, 98, 99and 200): these data show that the urbanized areas
have grown at a similar rate as working persons and this factor is probably connected to
Almeida et al., [2005] connected urban growth also to economic growth, assuming that
there is a relationship between people’s economic status, available areas to be built up and
expansion of urbanized area. It isn’t easy to establish such relationship, because numerous
economic parameters should be considered: for instance, per capita income, which however
presents the disadvantage to average the data. To overtake this problem, it is possible to relate
the built-up area with the number of working persons only, for the specific reason that they
are mainly responsible for new construction. Referring to the study area, the total amount
of workers have been extracted from the last four census data available (ISTAT, Industry
and services census 97, 98, 99and 200): these data show that the urbanized areas
have grown at a similar rate as working persons and this factor is probably connected to
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