By considering the land value along the streets as one of the elements which may indicate the character of the central shopping streets, it has become clear that the land values along the central shopping streets are associated with other characteristic elements on the streets, and that the extents of the central shopping streets in CBDs are controlled by the land value along the streets.
Making use of the land value along the streets, discussions treated here may be summarized as follows:
(1) There are three types of the central shopping streets (A, B and C) in view of the arrangement of the land value in each block along the central shopping streets.
(2) When the difference of the land value of the central shopping streets in CBDs is measured by the land value along the streets (peak of land value=100%), types of the central shopping streets can be divided into a, a' ………e.
(3) Types of the central shopping streets reckoned on the ratio of the length to the land value of each block along the central shopping streets can be divided into (1)_??_(5).
Next, the writer has tried to establish synthesized types of the central shopping streets from the above-mentioned characteristics of the land value along the. central shopping streets as fol-lows: Aa(1) for Sendai, Bc(1) for Takamatsu, Ae(4) for Gifu, Kôchi, Kôfu and Saga, Aa(2) for Sapporo, Okayama and Kokura (Kitakyûshû), Ba(2) for Hiroshima and Himeji.