Sociogeographic Regional Systems

The content of the course is based on following topics: Geographical organisation of society: general concept – socio-geographical regionalisation: methods, evaluation – hierarchy of settlement system – metropolitan areas – locational attractivity – development of territorial concentration of population and economic activities – scale differentiation of sociogeographical systems and development processes – types of geographical diffusion of changes – urbanisation and development of hierarchy of nodal centers – metropolisation and development hierarchy of supranodal centers – industrial and post-industrial stages of settlement system – regional development and regional policy – socio-geographical regionalisation and territorial administration – past and future development of socio-geographical organisation – European and global context.