The weakness of the talent's base in TMO (Town Management Organization) has been put in question in Japan. The aim of this study is to clarify the recruitment and the function for Town Centre Manager in the improvement of central urban district. This report examines the current situation of the Town Centre Manager in the UK as the advanced case. It is believed that the following points are important. Firstly, an agreement between the relevant parties and focused interviewing is a key to the recruitment. Secondly, management skill and communication skill are essential to Town Centre Manager. Thirdly, it is desirable for the talent's base to have various abilities rather than standardized ability.

Social Area Analysis is an important and helpful tool in understanding a city's socio-spatial attributes. However, its applications in urban planning or other related practices are scarce. The first reason for this is that the linear correlation methods implemented in the past years oversimplified the complexities of the reality, and the results often bring a pattern irrelevant to the real world. Another reason is that visualization of spatial patterns requires such a vast amount of labor that sometimes it is impracticable. This paper aims to propose a non-linear correlation method using Self Organizing Map (SOM) techniques to investigate the social areas within a city and then to project the data on a GIS for visualization. We select Beppu City, Oita Prefecture as a testing area, because there are not many studies on social area analysis of Japanese cities, and after this, we intend to expand our study to larger cities of this country.

This study focuses on the town of Ise Kawasaki in an attempt to understand the interrelationship between unique features of the management the Seta River basin and a community design working to harness the cultural environment provided by its history as a port town and wholesale district on the Seta River. The results show that these two apparently heterogeneous activities are both deeply involved with the common regional resources of the Seta River, and that maintaining harmony between the two is important. Moreover, such efforts have the potential to produce tourist attractions not through community design emphasizing history and culture, but also through the river basin management centering on river repair and water quality clean-up.

Sustainable cities are those where journey-to-work trip lengths are stabilizing or decreasing, and the control of residential and employment location is one policy instrument. As the journey-to-work trip length depends on the urban structure and travel behavior, an optimal commuting assignment problem is applied based on a model of zonal travel preference functions. The preference functions are transformed into quadratic functions using data for the journey to work in Sapporo and Hakodate, Hokkaido. The model is applied to estimate mean trip lengths from different zonal distributions of resident and employment.

The objective of this study is to evaluate the potential of Ichinoi-seki, a historical weir at the Katsura River of Kyoto, as waterfront space. Activities of the visitors were observed one week day and one weekend day in each season. Spaces of the weir were also analyzed through simple survey of the site. The result shows several spatial use characteristics, such as fewness of entries to the weir, concentration of uses on the spaces easily accessible from the banks, and dominance of water associated activities to the general outdoor activities. The level of water from the top of the structures as well as the depth of the water adjacent to the structures were considered as the key factors for affording water associated activities.

The purpose of this study is to compare the ease of pedestrian movement in an avenue before and after introducing a transit mall. To this end, the change of the expected time of crossing the avenue is calculated in Kokusai Street, Naha, Okinawa. First, the number of crossing pedestrians is observed. Second, the expected time of crossing in the current situation is obtained by formulating a mathematical model based on the observation. Third, the expected time of crossing after introducing transit mall is estimated. The credibility of the estimation is assessed by comparison of the estimated expected time in the current situation with observation. Last, by comparing the two values of the expected time, the change in ease of pedestrian movement by introducing a transit mall is analyzed.

We investigated the Fundamental Traffic Safety Program concerning Road in Japan and obtained the following conclusions. 1.When the road traffic accident of our country was considered historically, the time that had to carry out regulation guidance of the automobile run based on road capacity had already come 2.The first Fundamental Traffic safety Program succeeded in uplifting national safe consciousness including a driver, and achieved big success to reduction in an accident. The eighth Program has the epoch-making plan group which added "society without a traffic accident", "the safe thought of man priority", "consideration by the traffic weak", etc. This Program has the contents which "safety problem can express as it being problem" of human rights.

This paper is outline of an approach to social exclusion problem by Groundwork, which is a non-profit organisation for environmental regeneration in the UK, through a variety of case of human resources development programme. These approaches are a good example for activities of non-profit organisations for regeneration in Japan. That is , as a new approach by NPO in Japan, it is important and significant to apply the skill of environmental regeneration to social exclusion problem.