One Kind of Reading of the Space View and Spatial Planning

Abstract

The author defines the general concept of space and its special categories from post-positivistic view mainly and their principal characteristics. On the one hand the space is a clear aspect and a conceptual design existing independently from the objects outside of us, on the other hand it consists of shapes and frames of all of existing things. It is an abstract approach for one thing but then again it is an empirical construction consisting of concrete experimental elements. Space without contents is homogeneous, empty and it is not structured in itself. The space utilisation by humans is of crucial importance for the emergence of the spatial structure. The author characterises the two fundamentally different categories, the space with small scale and with large scale, touches on few spatial aspects of globalisation and refers to the theories of the emergence of the vertical spatial structure and to the features of regionalisation and discusses the Hungarian usage of the concepts which are connected with the concept of space and its problems. He finds that the formation of the regions in Hungary is not an objective necessity, but it is only a device. So the judgement on them is possible by considering the aim of their formation and its contents. On the basis of these, the author describes the method of integrated communal (spatial) planning in which the unity of the developmental, organisational, sector and functional planning is established. Instead of summary, he reacts on the questions in connection with duality and paradigm of territorial science of the article (by J. Nemes Nagy) published in the same issue. The author finds that the empirical and analytical approach (of positivism) is increasingly being changed by normative-synthesised approach (he describes its characteristics) although the new paradigms which are accepted by many people and exist side by side have not emerged yet.