Abstract
In recent years, the number of vacant stores is increasing and city centers are declining along depopulation and suburbanization in local cities. In this study, the spatial structure in the central area of Tottori city is estimated by centrality measures from network theory, locations of major facilities, and locations of vacant properties. On the basis of the hypothesis that streets with structural advantages, such as high centralities in the street network and/or high accessibility to facilities, should have fewer vacant stores, generalized linear regression is applied to the data of the number of vacant stores with characteristics of spatial structures. This analysis reveals whether streets with structural advantages are efficiently used in the city center.
