The Concept and the Explanation of the Spatial Structure

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to describe and construe one main notion of geography, regional economy and regional science: the spatial structure. The research is based on the elaboration of numerous Hungarian studies (books, articles) which use this notion. The use of the notion in different areas of social science was analysed and its different types were described in this paper. In regional science and geography there are a couple of different definitions of the spatial structure and they were categorized as well. Finally we tried to describe the extension of this notion in regional science.