About the spatial development (judgment about the subject and methodology uncertainty)

The author sees the uncertainty of the spatial development themes in the disagreement of interpretation of the research subject, the substitution of specific spatial processes by general regional economy postulates, the combination of concepts and methods for studying the spatial and territorial aspects of socio-economic development, the lack of consistency in the organization of practical work in the field of state management of the spatial structure of Russia. Economic mismanagement relates to the difficulties of combining the constitutional provisions on the unity of the market space and the objective necessity for its administrative regulators of a non-market nature. The positive examples of studying the possibilities of optimizing the space of people’s life activity allow us to understand the subject essence of research in this area of science.