Abstract
Space has been construed by geographers both as a natural space governed by natural laws, which is studied by the historical sciences of nature including physical geography, and also as a natural and social space studied by human geography. In the 1960s and 1970s the study of spatial forms and spatial structures, understood as including the spatial organisation of objects and persons, patterns of regional specialisation, and the functional connections between activities in different areas, along with the complementary elaboration of methods for the analysis of spatial systems, were perhaps the central themes of geographical research.1
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Dunford, M., Perrons, D. (1983). The Concept of Space. In: The Arena of Capital. Critical Human Geography. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17107-1_5
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