"Since the end of the first conflict, the municipal administration of Padua has been committed to promoting building activity aimed at modernizing the city, linked to its economic development. A strategic railway hub geographically at the center of the region, Padua stands out in the economic context of the Veneto as important financial and commercial hub. The activity of the Goods Exchange is also decisive at a national level, as is that of the trade fair which, inaugurated in 1919, is the first to be established in Italy" (Adriana Tiso,Padua - a case study in http://circe.iuav.it/Venetotra2guerre/04/associazione.html.