Demographic Aspects of Recent Spatio-Functional Organization of the Settlement System of Vojvodina

This paper represents recent research of spatial and functional organization of the Autonomus Province of Vojvodina in the Republic of Serbia (in the sequel - Vojvodina) based on the level of development of the spatial-functional links and relations in its network of settlements. Presented researches have their theoretical and methodological fundaments in the paradigms of functional regionalization and contemporary doctrines of regional development, based on relevant theorethical and methodological postulates of modern spatial planning, human geography, and its social and economical disciplines. The goal of this research was to indentify, realize and scientificaly explain the problems of development and functional organization of Vojvodina`s settlements` network, and to determine a model for the sustainable development of settlements