In this paper, I give a personal view on the development of the field of spatial econometrics during the past 30 years. I argue that it has moved from the margins to the mainstream of applied econometrics and social science methodology. I distinguish three broad phases in the development, which I refer to as preconditions, take off and maturity. For each of these phases I describe the main meth...

The paper outlines the development of shape theory since its founding by K. Borsuk 30 years ago to the present days. As a motivation for introducing shape theory, some shortcomings of homotopy theory in dealing with spaces of irregular local behavior are described. Special attention is given to the contributions to shape theory made by the Zagreb topology group.