While proceeding with the study of urban regeneration and cultural creation as Aoyama Gakuin University professor, who Norio Iguchi work actively in the practice of making the town. Thus was born and raised, fondness of the current also to Shibuya, Harajuku, Aoyama area The area that continues to live is harder than others. Always to Iguchi, who is to cherish that roam the "town-town", we heard the Shibuya of charm and challenges that were captured by the point of view of researchers and practitioners.

Old Shibuya The area was the town that can play that suits tall It was the countryside

- Or a child, was what the city.

Around my house there was a Harajuku of Togo Shrine was small the mall. And it is lined with Toka Toka milkman ice shop for a refrigerator ... so, for some reason, Starhin pitcher who played in the Giants there is also a pharmacy management (laughs). It looks very downtown, just the world of the movie "ALWAYS - Sunset on Third Street". At that time around also quiet atmosphere, the other side of the station have seen the forest of the Meiji Shrine, there was little pedestrian traffic Nante Takeshita street. Play place, we were not extend up to the per Aoyama street. Have still ran Toden, narrow roads, it was not through too much even car. After speaking with the Mecca of children's play, yard of the streetcar, which had now become a such as the United Nations University. I put from anywhere. Up to the rubble of the mountain, I'm a mimic of Moonlight Mask and boy jet in all, it was a wrapping cloth to cloak (laughs).

- Shibuya Station is How was.

So also go to Shinjuku and a little bigger, I thought from the comparison between it and the "I wonder there are still good atmosphere that is not in the Shibuya is still in development." Shinjuku it was amazing even Dadappiroku the way traffic from that time. Shibuya and look around from the train station, there is a hill, there to see the house, it's usually the person is living. On the other hand, such as there is a movie theater and planetarium in the immediate near a train station, there was a scent of urban culture. I Shinjuku get tired just have some time, in the Shibuya, such as it is way to enjoy tailored to the tall, it is such an impression.

- Time since I was, Shibuya Will the city began to change.

If think from now, I Tokyo Olympics was a big turning point. In preparation for the Olympic Aoyama has been enhanced, and be Roppongi Street, traffic volume of around Shibuya Station was also increased in one fell swoop. Kana until about the second half of it from the 1960s, you had the house group called Washington Heights for the US military of luxury officer around now Yoyogi Park. It is gone, become a park, NHK have also been relocated. So the atmosphere around Harajuku Station has been changed and Gara', of course, came to Koen Dori connecting NHK and Shibuya Station take a sudden limelight. Since I came in Seibu system large store of the roadside, we have the impression that the center city of Shibuya began to rapidly expand.

What to do if an eye on the back side of the city does not come into view

- Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (hereinafter, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport) era, What kind of had been the work.

Prior to moving to Aoyama Gakuin University in 1994, airports around the country in the ministry, had been involved in such as the harbor and the surrounding urban development. For example, Yokohama Minato Mirai 21, etc. were also How can involved, in the process, of course, together with the community, we talked seriously about how to change the city. It is for people in the community is a city to live their is life, because they would like to tell a good one to a child or grandchild, is desperate. Community development, in the end, it's made to match the kind of energy. It was very rewarding work for me, even working much trouble to hard, it would post has changed in about a year and a half. It is a fate officials Well. In my case, (each of the post) away hard feelings strongly, even from moving to the next project, I was in constant care and "what happened to the long". Originally, because officials are keeping a disinterested, without regard to the specific region or problem, because do not have to switch the sputtering and feelings, in that sense I guess I was completely disqualified (laughs).

- So What became to quit your ministry.

Across the country to see that people of the region to tackle desperately to town planning, and "yourself for the home, the wonder has been what the heck," "or not can be something now", to think from time to time year. Because he or announced in Society wrote a further paper since I was working in the ministry, also I hope to study the one thing to sit down, and just when I was thinking also, the teachers at Aoyama Gakuin University I was looking for. With regard to transportation was a public offering of the theme, since it was originally working professionally, we applied in a natural flow that tries to research thorough investigation it. In time certain 35-year-old at the time, from the co-workers of the ministry "also increases the position now, but the work is interesting, why quit," was reluctant wonder. But you know, more and more authority by promotion, but might be certainly easier because also increases subordinates, because the reduced opportunity to stand at the forefront, as the content of the work, I did not think so much becomes interesting. I like to walk around the character to the scene.

- It seems now also Irassharu out to actively Street.

The researchers, but to announce at a conference the results that were studied in the laboratory it is common, not interesting just it. So out in the city by pulling in students, or to investigate the various places, have been or changing to actually create the city. Even now, every day except on rainy days, almost a radius of 1 km range of home, "Do not do something unusual thing and challenges and problems", it has been running around wandering around by bicycle. I thing Well like a patrol (laughs). In fact, do not look every day, you do not notice the change. If you suddenly thought that began increasing garbage in the alley was a beautiful, town chairman who was cleaning it or not in bed with a cold. Not only the appearance of the city, to know until the action and life the first time of the people where they live, there are things to come for the first time appeared. I do not see only superficial things to people who are coming to come town people and work, can be seen kind of the back side of the movement is to myself that happened was born and raised here. Otherwise, for the city, for the people, it is what to do then I'm not in sight.

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