A symposium on "Relocation of the Hiroshima University and the Formation of a New Campus-city" was held on July 22 and 23, 1993 at Higashi-Hiroshima campus of the Hiroshima University, as the 38th research meeting of the Man-Environment Research Association. Processes of this large scale relocation and its impact on the university community as well as on the newly formed campus-city of Higashi-Hiroshima were conceptualized as an unusual occasion of person-environment transitions at a macro scale. Various changes in physical, interpersonal and socio-cultural environments were reported and discussed within a theoretical framework of organismic-developmental approach. The symposium started with invited speeches by Dr. Yoshitake on "The experiences in Tsukuba Science City" as pioneering case on the subject and by Dr. Wapner on "Restructuring of a complex person-in-environment system: The relocation of a University." Active participants in the project of relocation of the Hiroshima University presented their views on the total process, and evaluation from the viewpoints of environmental psychology, architecture, and environmental design on this large-scale transitions were presented and discussed.

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Tsukuba Science City started its construction some 30 years ago. The author engaged in planning of the city in the primary stage of the project. This paper deals with the evaluation of Tsukuba Science City project from the standpoint of daily life based on the author's past experience of living actually in the city for certain period of time and recent interviews of current inhabitants in the city. The city was originally regarded as dependent to Tokyo Metropolis for its urban life. However, the city now proved to be well independent as a new city type which allows inhabitant's working place closely located to their dwellings. The fact that most of their working places consist of national Institutions and Universities, gave the city calm, but vivid aspects, produced good balance among different age groups and metabolic changes in population and resulted in creating unique intelligent atmosphere. In addition, availability of housing and public facilities, of nature and green, attracts families, especially children and elderly people. This is the result of the national project with good detailed design of the city which contributed to calmness, vividity, good atmosphere and ease of living. On the other hand, there exist several problems, e.g., lack of parking spaces because of unexpected increase of cars, closure of shops in district centers because of establishment of huge supermarket, lack of sites for private institutions. It is necessary in future to take these unexpected factors into consideration in the planning of the city.

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The Holistic, developmental, systems-oriented perspective is applied to the analysis of relocating a major university with nine faculties. This transactional approach utilizes the person-in-environment system as the unit of analysis, including the person's physical/biological, psychological, and sociocultural features, and the environment's physical, interpersonal (e.g., faculty), and sociocultural (e.g., educational regulations) features. This category system, the holistic (one part influences others), developmental (e.g., regressive and progressive shifts from a dedifferentiated to a differentiated and hierarchically integrated state), and other assumptions are used to pose questions about the transition that takes place in: (1) the original locale (e.g., What impact did the loss of the university have on the city's present status?), and, most important, (2) the new locale of the university (e.g., What impact does the new university location have on the city and surrounding environment?), and (3) in the university (e.g., What reorganization is required of its 11 faculties?). It is concluded, that answer of the various questions with constructive action, will make great progress in understanding this transition, and in developing a highly successful status of the university, of the community in which it is embedded, and the relations between them.

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