The purpose of this paper is to study a change of location for other business which is broughtabout by a new shopping center. The aim of this is to analyze the effect of a new shoppingcenter construction not to the activities of other commercial business but to the location forother business near here at the time of a car age in an urban area. The results are as follows.
1. A shopping center construction stimulates location for other business.The effective area ofit is not more than a radius of 400m from the shopping center.
2. When a shopping center is constructed at the place where is already built up a little, it givesa good effect for other business location.
3. When the place where a shopping center is constructed is not far from existing businessarea, the effect is on high level.
4. The existence of arterial roads and the level of the improvement of arterial road networkhave an effect on other business location.
Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. D3 (Infrastructure Planning and Management)