UDCK has three functions: a think tank to carry out "investigation, research and proposals" for a new city development; a coordinator to promote projects through "coordination and support" of actual development; and a body to "dispatch information" to call for participation.
Activities are broadly divided into four groups as shown below. Typical activities of each group are shown on the following pages.

1. Research and proposals:
Research and proposals for city development

2. Demonstration experiments and business creation:
Support cooperation between leading-edge knowledge/technologies and communities

3. Design management:
Coordination and support for the development of high-quality space design

4. Exchange and learning:
Support of the development of a sustainable system of community management