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The article discusses studies pertaining to U.S. Intra-City Business Areas in the 1930's. The study was designed to determine specific business conditions in various parts of the city. The study revealed four principle types of retail structure. They are the central business district, the outlying business center, the neighborhood business district, and the isolated store cluster. The central business district draws customers from all parts of the city and outlying suburbs. Intra-city business data reveals the relative importance by volume of sales and number of stores of each business area within a given city.

Cohesion policy belongs among the most important fields of EU interests. Its objectives are achieved by many ways with respect to diversity among the European regions at the level of NUTS 2. The aim of this paper is to analyse relevant indicators, and via the evaluation of EU regional policy effectiveness to rewiev difference in the production-consumption patterns of behaviour of European regions; focussing on convergence and variabiliness of these regions. With defined goal in mind, the regions have been classified. To classify the regions, the relational indicator has been created. The relational indicator has been developed as the relationship between the index of relative performance and index of relative consumption sources. The changes of relational indicator, as well as the GDP per capita criterion, have been evaluated in two periods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]