This research is focus in three main aspects. First, aims to present the research about the past and future of commercial geography, public policies regarding commercial geography inside the context of urban structures, linked to the advances in spatial analysis, oriented to tertiary activities in the intra-urban-space particularly in Mexican cities but particularly in the Toluca Metropolitan Area. The Second axis, is related to studiy cases that focus on exploring the future of commercial geography within cities. The last objective of the work is related to the research and knowledge about the spatial organization and offers some elements to a better explanation about spatial organization of tertiary activities within the cities along to an abstract vocabulary and methodological resources.