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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0727.00011.] The main purpose of this survey paper is to advocate the usage of conic spaces. Section 1 gives their definition, and points out that every CW complex, and every simplicial complex are particular cases of conic spaces. It follows by examples of conic (non CW and non simplicial) presentations of three important spaces, and by some theorems concerning conic spaces. The second section takes on one of the theorems mentioned in the first, namely, the fact that Thom spaces of bundles over conic bases are conic. Since this is a review paper, the section reviews some older results in the same direction. The third section reviews the subject of Hopf invariants. Those Hopf invariants come into the description of the relative attaching maps in Thom spaces so that some of the constructions in this section are mentioned in the second too, but the third section discusses some older constructions. The fourth section reviews the construction \(X_ k\). Some of this work has not been published. The \(X_ k\)-construction could be viewed as Thom spaces of bundles over the conic space \(J_ k (S^ n)\), and hence the fourth section is a continuation of the first and the second section.