Hirofumi Minami, Ph.D., is professor of environmental psychology in the Department of Urban Design and Disaster Management at the Faculty of Human- Environment Studies of Kyushu Un...view moreHirofumi Minami, Ph.D., is professor of environmental psychology in the Department of Urban Design and Disaster Management at the Faculty of Human- Environment Studies of Kyushu University, Japan. He specializes in developmental and environmental psychology, urban design, and cultural psychology. His research topics include childhood memories of significant places, urban renewal and the elderly, cultural assumptions underlying environmental concepts, social ecological studies of urban life in Asian cities, ethnographic and field research methods, and Psychoanalysis of Cities. He cofounded the Japanese Society of Qualitative Psychology, chaired the Man- Environment Research Association, and was dean of the Faculty of Education of Kyushu University.view less