Although 63 per cent of Okayama's buildings were destroyed by bombing, the center of population in 1952 was at the same point as in 1939, but more widely scattered. The land-value distribution exhibited a fairly smooth gradient in both 1940 and 1942, with very slight differences: the postwar city appears to have essentially the same pattern of land use as the prewar city. The effects on values of frontage on major thoroughfares and of proximity to secondary points of traffic flow are similar to those in Western cities.