Abstract
Various phenomena observed in the prices of commodities have seldom been made the main object in the study of shopping-streets. In the present paper, however, the author has taken up to examine, selecting Sendai City as his field, what interrelations exist between these phenomena and the functional differentiatiation of shopping-streets. The results gained are as follows:
1. The kinds of stores which shopping-streets are composed of have been closely examined in the study of the central shopping-streets, but commodities being sold also vary in price according to the localities of shopping-streets.
2. Though of the same kind, more expensive commodities are dealt in only at the central shopping-streets, and this tendency is more conspicuous in the case of articles of luxury and in vogue. Popularized ones, on the contrary, show no differences in price with the sites of the shopping-streets.
3. So far as Sendai is concerned, the adoption of the differences in price as an indicator for the central shopping-streets, has the following meanings different from what the previous indicator brings with it.
(1) The degree of function can be grasped in terms of the numerical values of the prices of commodities.
(2) The functional differentiation is expressed by the differences in the prices of commodities.
