Conceptualising patterns of spatial flows: Five decades of advances in the definition and use of functional regions
Some fifty years in the development of ideas about the definition and use of functional regions are elaborated in this article, as an introduction to this Special Issue of the Moravian Geographical Reports. The conceptual basis for functional regions is discussed, initially in relation to region-org...
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| description | Some fifty years in the development of ideas about the definition and use of functional regions are elaborated in this article, as an introduction to this Special Issue of the Moravian Geographical Reports. The conceptual basis for functional regions is discussed, initially in relation to region-organising interactions and their behavioural foundations. This paper presents an approach to functional regions which presumes that such regions objectively exist and that they are based on more or less tangible processes (however, a different view of regions is also briefly described). A typology of functional regions is presented and the development of methods for finding a definition of functional regions is discussed, as well as a typology for these methods. The final part of this article stresses the importance of functional regions in geographical research, and introduces some emerging new prospects in the study of functional regions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-89a25bcbbfdd4ed1a89a686950e59d402022-12-21T19:14:38ZengSciendoMoravian Geographical Reports1210-88122016-06-0124221110.1515/mgr-2016-0006mgr-2016-0006Conceptualising patterns of spatial flows: Five decades of advances in the definition and use of functional regionsKlapka Pavel0Halás Marián1Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech RepublicDepartment of Geography, Faculty of Science, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech RepublicSome fifty years in the development of ideas about the definition and use of functional regions are elaborated in this article, as an introduction to this Special Issue of the Moravian Geographical Reports. The conceptual basis for functional regions is discussed, initially in relation to region-organising interactions and their behavioural foundations. This paper presents an approach to functional regions which presumes that such regions objectively exist and that they are based on more or less tangible processes (however, a different view of regions is also briefly described). A typology of functional regions is presented and the development of methods for finding a definition of functional regions is discussed, as well as a typology for these methods. The final part of this article stresses the importance of functional regions in geographical research, and introduces some emerging new prospects in the study of functional regions.https://doi.org/10.1515/mgr-2016-0006spatial flowsfunctional regionfunctional regionalisationregional taxonomygeographical thought |
| spellingShingle | Klapka Pavel Halás Marián Conceptualising patterns of spatial flows: Five decades of advances in the definition and use of functional regions Moravian Geographical Reports spatial flows functional region functional regionalisation regional taxonomy geographical thought |
| title | Conceptualising patterns of spatial flows: Five decades of advances in the definition and use of functional regions |
| title_full | Conceptualising patterns of spatial flows: Five decades of advances in the definition and use of functional regions |
| title_fullStr | Conceptualising patterns of spatial flows: Five decades of advances in the definition and use of functional regions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Conceptualising patterns of spatial flows: Five decades of advances in the definition and use of functional regions |
| title_short | Conceptualising patterns of spatial flows: Five decades of advances in the definition and use of functional regions |
| title_sort | conceptualising patterns of spatial flows five decades of advances in the definition and use of functional regions |
| topic | spatial flows functional region functional regionalisation regional taxonomy geographical thought |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1515/mgr-2016-0006 |
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