Abstract
This paper is the methodological resumption of a reporter's point of view in his studies on the structure of the areal-agglomeration (Chiiki-Shudan) [Chiiki-Shudan is a sort of the origin form completing an “industrial region”]. The researches for the industrial regions made by geographers up to the present may be divided into three types: the researches with regard to industrialization (the first type), the industrial-location (the second type), and the characteristics or patterns of industrial region (the third type). Though both the first type and the second type must essentially help each other as a completed geographical research, a majority of the researches which belong to two tpes are inclined to emphasize the peculiar aspects of the industrial region and this brought about the growth of the third type of research. But the studies of this trend, generally speaking, have not yet found the appropriate method for the analysis of the industrial region. This resulted very often the lack of the dynamic analyses and the methodological consistency in the research.
The reporter of this paper selects the areal-agglomeration (namely Chiiki-Shudan) as the object for analysing the structural pattern in all kinds of industrial regions. Namely, Chiiki-Shudan is made up the Industrial Region in the present state of the individual agglomeration of the manufacturing enterprises in which the process of production aims at obtaining more the surplus value realizing results from having divided various manufacturing enterprises from pursuing the profits of external economics. At Chiiki-Shudan, the greater part of diverse manufacturing enterprises (namely “divided enterprise”) are brought into unity spatially by means of certain particular enterprises (in named “main enterprise”) consisting of them.
Owing to this characteristic of Chiiki-shudan, the reporter asserts that it will be possible to analyze Chiiki-Shudan to assay the “organic relationship” (is called “Wirkungszusammenhang” by E. Otremba) between “divided enterprise” and “main enterprise” in the process of production.
And So the reporter concludes that it will be possible to analyse the structural pattern in all kinds of industrial regions to adopt the approach above. The result of the concrete analysis of this approach will be presented in parts II and III.
