Generally, land-value is regarded as a function of the site of a land in its social and natural environment and its productive power of the land itself. But in an urban area land-value depends upon the site, for that reason landvalue is an important geographical element.
The author chose the city of Sendai (present population 340, 000) as one case and studied the distribution of land-value in the years of 1910, 1931, 1939 and 1949.
In 1919 as long as 40 years after the Revolution of Meiji that is thought to be the birth of modern Japan, the effects of the feudal age are still recognized in the distribution, while in 1936 and 1936 the ceter of the city has been transmitted from the citadel symbol of the feudal days, in the west part to the railway station representing the modern age and standing at the eastern part and the lod conservative marchants have been beaten by the newly born progressive ones.
So the shape of the urban center has been transformed from _??_ to _??_ and then slipped eastwards, its shape having become H at last.
It is commonly recognized that in an ordinary city, an urban center grows still higher in proportion to the-population increase, while in a greater one, its growth is less than that of the sub centers, but in the case of Sendai, during the reorganization of its urban functions, the land value of the center did not grow higher and after the organization was completed ite growth began for first time.
The author recongizes that the case of Sendai shows a stage prior to the above mational c_??_nn_??_a acknowledgement, about the case of a modern city.

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