The Archives Project works in cooperation with three projects in Osaka, China, and Southeast Asia under an organization reformed from the Heisei 17 (2005) fiscal year. The project accumulates continuously, mutually connecting the results of research about the city in every place and region, and letting the city act as a subject domestically and abroad. The concrete contents of this are as follows:

(1) While inheriting the information accumulated by conventional research educational teams, in cooperation with three newly launched projects the collection of data, the construction of databases, and the public presentation of the results of work is to be made general.

(2) In order to realize an "official announcement and maintenance of the homepage in English", a substantial portion of the project consists in the publication and construction of a database in English. Moreover, the use of native speakers to check work strengthens any official announcement of high-quality results of work in English.

(3) We plan holding a city-culture theoretical international symposium. Researchers who have raised the results of their work to a global level about urban topics are specifically invited, and the latest theories are examined positively. By making this combine with the results of concrete research which this COE Program has accumulated, a theoretical construction for city-cultural studies is aimed at. The result of the symposium will be released and it will clarify the subject and methods of this new field of learning known as "city-culture study."