The claim to be able to use the critical-rational methodology of the social sciences in regional geographical research, is confronted with several difficulties. In this present contribution, an attempt is made to bring together systematically
, Popper's ideas on the methodology of social sciences and to make them fruitful for practical empirical research. This implies a new orientation of the regional geographical research from an action-oriented spatial approach to a spatially-oriented science
Small format aerial photography made with a light aircraft has been used to provide a low cost data base for analyzing housing and landuse problems of the Bangkok metropolitan region. Methodology applied for the housing stock inventory.
The proceedings of this symposium deal with theoretical and methodological approaches of research, population policies, demographic trends, urban growth, rural-urban migration in European countries and especially in the GDR. - (IH)