Subject syllabus:
I. Location decision-making. Location decision-making of the enterprise. Enterprise or household as an open system. Further interacting subjects.
II. Neo-classical, Behavioristic and Structural approach to the location. Location factors, their evolution and relevance.
III. Neo-classical approach or the importance of transportation costs for location. Transportation costs and price. Optimal location.
IV. Influence of transportation costs on the volume of the production and used technology. Production factors and exerted technology in spatial perspective.
V. Transportation costs and spatial monopoly. Price strategies of the spatial monopoly.
VI. Organisational structure, technology and location of the enterprise. Enterprise organisational structures and location behaviour.
VII. Location behaviour of big and small enterprises. Spatial aspects of entrepreneurship and firm networks.
VIII. Theory of production cycle and its spatial aspects. New industry and regional centres of the growth.
IX. Interaction of localities: attractiveness and competition. Dispersion and concentration. Mechanisms supporting concentration and dispersion of economic activities.
X. Agglomeration effects and their economic importance. Optimal size of the city.
XI. Mutual relations of enterprises and creation of spatial structures. Von Thünen’s theory.
XII. Theory of urban structures. Location decision-making of households.
XIII. Settlement structure and urban systems. Theory of central places. Theory of urban systems.
XIV. Models of urban development. Particular developmental stages and their application.
I. Location decision-making. Location decision-making of the enterprise. Enterprise or household as an open system. Further interacting subjects.
II. Neo-classical, Behavioristic and Structural approach to the location. Location factors, their evolution and relevance.
III. Neo-classical approach or the importance of transportation costs for location. Transportation costs and price. Optimal location.
IV. Influence of transportation costs on the volume of the production and used technology. Production factors and exerted technology in spatial perspective.
V. Transportation costs and spatial monopoly. Price strategies of the spatial monopoly.
VI. Organisational structure, technology and location of the enterprise. Enterprise organisational structures and location behaviour.
VII. Location behaviour of big and small enterprises. Spatial aspects of entrepreneurship and firm networks.
VIII. Theory of production cycle and its spatial aspects. New industry and regional centres of the growth.
IX. Interaction of localities: attractiveness and competition. Dispersion and concentration. Mechanisms supporting concentration and dispersion of economic activities.
X. Agglomeration effects and their economic importance. Optimal size of the city.
XI. Mutual relations of enterprises and creation of spatial structures. Von Thünen’s theory.
XII. Theory of urban structures. Location decision-making of households.
XIII. Settlement structure and urban systems. Theory of central places. Theory of urban systems.
XIV. Models of urban development. Particular developmental stages and their application.