1. Location decision-making – three basic approaches and their comparison. Economic entities and the role of state in territorial development.
2. Location factors and their development and importance – specific territorial supply and demand, spatial differentiation of location factors.
3. Transportation costs and their importance – neo-classical approach towards location, spatial monopoly and its strategies.
4. Behavioural conception of location – enterprise organisation and location, types of organisational structures and their location decision-making
5. Structural conception of location – time-space compression and distanciation, changing meaning of the place and space, technological development.
6. Interaction of localities – agglomeration effects and their economic importance, mutual relations of economic entities and creation of spatial structures, mechanisms supporting concentration and dispersion of economic activities
7. Mutual relations of economic entities and formation of spatial structures - von Thünen theory and its importance for further conceptions.
8. Conceptions of geographical structures of the city – location decision-making of households, Alonso´s conception and its comparison with genuine urban structures.
9. Settlement structure and urban systems – central place theory and its contemporary importance, urban systems, evolutionary view on cities.
10. Regions and their differentiation – notion of the region, type, rank/scale and further kinds of regional differentiation, regionalism and regionalisation.
11. Local and regional development – fundamental approaches toward local and regional developments, fundamental approaches toward local and regional policies.
12. Contemporary themes and conceptions of local and regional development – specific features of local and regional development in Central and Eastern Europe.
2. Location factors and their development and importance – specific territorial supply and demand, spatial differentiation of location factors.
3. Transportation costs and their importance – neo-classical approach towards location, spatial monopoly and its strategies.
4. Behavioural conception of location – enterprise organisation and location, types of organisational structures and their location decision-making
5. Structural conception of location – time-space compression and distanciation, changing meaning of the place and space, technological development.
6. Interaction of localities – agglomeration effects and their economic importance, mutual relations of economic entities and creation of spatial structures, mechanisms supporting concentration and dispersion of economic activities
7. Mutual relations of economic entities and formation of spatial structures - von Thünen theory and its importance for further conceptions.
8. Conceptions of geographical structures of the city – location decision-making of households, Alonso´s conception and its comparison with genuine urban structures.
9. Settlement structure and urban systems – central place theory and its contemporary importance, urban systems, evolutionary view on cities.
10. Regions and their differentiation – notion of the region, type, rank/scale and further kinds of regional differentiation, regionalism and regionalisation.
11. Local and regional development – fundamental approaches toward local and regional developments, fundamental approaches toward local and regional policies.
12. Contemporary themes and conceptions of local and regional development – specific features of local and regional development in Central and Eastern Europe.