SLIDE 3 The city
- M ain territorial features
Location: western part of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region Territorial extension: 38,23 sqKm Population density: 1,345 inh,/ sqKm. Six neighbourhoods: Rorai-Cappuccini, Nord (including the Comina quarter), Centro, Torre, Borgomeduna, Sud (including Villanova and Vallenoncello quarters). Territorial features: plains with many green areas and two rivers Noncello (used to connect the city with the Adriatic Sea and Venice) and M eduna
- M ain economic activities
Economy: traditionally a rural area with agriculture as a main sector, in the 19th century it becomes an industrialized area (textiles). After WW2 major industrialization with Lino Zanussi turning his company into the second largest manufacturer in Italy after FIAT with more than 13.000 employees in the 1960s. Pordenone becomes one of the richest and more active areas in Italy and Europe (sectors: carpentry, furniture, knife-making, textiles, engineering) until the 2007 crisis with many of the main employers (Ideal Standard, Electrolux) in the area closing down, partly counterbalanced by the multiplicity of sectors.
- M ain poles of attraction for flows of people and freight
Permanent exhibition, university, old town, hospital, logistics terminal, M eduna shopping centre
Third largest city in the Region, after Trieste and Udine Population (on 01/ 01/ 2015): 51,632, of which 52.5% are women and 47.5% are men. Age distribution: majority of population between 40 and 60, with over 65s steadily increasing in the period 2002-2015 (very old active population). People aged 20-24 equal those aged 80-84. 15.5% of population has a foreign origin Car/ inhabitant ration: 68/ 100 (decreasing by 4.2% from 2004 to 2015)