Rad je oblikovan kao analiza slučaja temeljena na analizi sekundarne literature i
kvalitativnim uvidima. U radu se afirmiraju teorijski koncepti društvene proizvodnje prostora,
regije kao modela istraživanja radi definiranja razvojnog cilja i koncept clustera. Rasprava
se sastoji od tri dijela: pregleda relevantne literature, analize postojeće socioekonomske
slike Podgorja te razvojnoga scenarija podgorskoga prostora u okviru clustera doživljaja.
U prvom se dijelu rada analizira postojeća literatura relevantna za razumijevanje društvene
percepcije prostora u svijetu i u Hrvatskoj. Slijedi sociodemografska analiza podgorske
mikroregije koja uključuje dijakronijski pregled podgorske razvojne slike te analizu
sociodemografske dinamike u prostoru Podgorja. U završnom dijelu rada oblikuje se
razvojni scenarij za Podgorje. Sustavnom analizom razvojne dinamike u Podgorju, definira
se perspektiva koja prostor Podgorja iz "zavičajnog" okruženja transvaluira u cluster od
vitalnog značaja za daljnji razvoj najprije Podgorja pa onda Ličko-senjske, Primorsko
goranske i Zadarske županije.The paper is formed like an analysis of a case based on the analysis of secondary literature
and quality insights. In the paper are affirmed the theoretical concepts of the social production
of the area, the region as a model of research for the defining of the developmental goal and the
concept of a cluster. The discussion consists of three parts: an overview of the relevant literature, an
analysis of the existing socio-economic picture of Podgorje, and a developmental scenario of the
Podgorje area in the framework of a cluster of experiences. In the first part of the paper the existing
literature relevant to the understanding of the social perception of the area in the world and in
Croatia is analysed. There then follows a socio-demographic analysis of the Podgorje micro-region
which includes a diachronic overview of the Podgorje developmental picture, and an analysis of the
socio-demographic dynamic in the area of Podgorje. In the final part of the paper a developmental
scenario of Podgorje is formulated. With the systematic analysis of the developmental dynamic
in Podgorje, a perspective is defined which transvalues the area of Podgorje from a "regional"
environment into a cluster of vital significance for the further development first of all of Podgorje
and then Lika-Senj, Primorje-Gorski Kotar and Zadar counties
