Characteristics of Central Shopping-Streets viewed from the Commodities

The author analysed the structure and distribution of retail services, taking the examples of several central shopping-streets by the characteristics of commodities, “shopping” and “convenience goods”.(1) An intense, mutual relations are found between the size of the population of the built-up areas in the cities, and percentage of the shops dealing in shopping goods in the central shopping-streets of the corresponding cities.It is generally considered that when the former increases in geometrical series, the latter does so in arithmetic series.(2) The core of a central shopping-street is formed by the concentration of department-stores and convenience shops. This district also has the highest land value among different kinds of the shopping-streets.(3) The growth and expansion of the cities, based on the distribution of retail services, and the shops for convenience and shopping goods, are summarized and are shown in Fig. 7.(4) Characteristics of central shopping-streets are closely related to the size of the population in the built-up areas within the same cities, but are not always determined by it.(5) The final stage of a central shopping-street seen from the tendencies of successive changes is such in which the streets are almost entirely consisted of shops for shopping goods.