The aim of the research is to investigate land use transformations in a territorial area of Albania, analyzing the connections existing between the deep political and socio-economical changes. The tools we adopted, from the field of the KDS, is able to produce IF/THEN type rules, in which the “IF” part describes the observed state, and the “THEN” part identifies the transition to another state. The application included different phases: a) construction of maps referred to different time slices; b) construction of automated procedures within G.I.S. in order to perform various kinds of cartographic analysis such as map overlays, neighbouring analysis, etc; c) construction of automated report tables referred to cartographic analysis, containing all the attributes necessary to describe the territorial structure; d) implementation of an algorithm able to extract land transformation rules; e) analysis of the obtained rules in order to find significant relations between socio-economical and spatial evolution