Elements of Quantitative Spatial Analysis in the Recent Regional Science

Abstract

Through its half-century of development, though regional science has changed and broadened both in theme and methodology, its primal topic of research is still the relation of space and society, and among its tools of analysis quantitative methods are highly accentuated. A primal issue of quantitative analysis is the study of regional inequalities. Amongst the active factors of spatial fragmentation, representing and measuring the weight and function of space and geographical attributes also require multiple quantitative methods. The analysis of spatial interactions and autocorrelation showing in result of spatial vicinity is the new methodological element prominently in focus of modern regional analyses.