ABSTRACT
Along with the development of vertical business structures, territorial complex building (or the emergence of horizontal structures) constitutes the process for the spatial saturation of the transformation city with consumer goods and services. As we have outlined before, territory itself contributes to the creation of certain forms of interdependence between the individual establishments that appear on this territory.1 By territorial complex, we understand a system of individual facilities that emerges at a particular location as a result of the specific features of that location – i.e. the particular combination of business structures and urban infrastructure there. The individual establishments within a complex are interdependent – most of them would have never appeared or survived in this particular business location without the presence of the other members of the territorial complex; all businesses located within the complex have a locational advantage over other businesses that are not part of the complex, because they benefit from the additional customers attracted by the complex as a whole, rather than just by their individual businesses. For this reason, individual or even branch business interests are somewhat subordinate to the interests of the complex. Thus, individual establishments will concentrate in one location, regardless of the competition between them. So, if in the case of vertical business structures, individual establishments were attracted by zones of consumer concentration, in the case of territorial complexes, individual businesses try to attract customers by forming spatial clusters.
