Roman Cybriwsky Professor
Office:335 Gladfelter Hall
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Areas of Expertise: Urban-social geography, world cities, neighborhood changes and development, cultural geography, Pacific Asia. Professor Cybriwsky is a former chair of the Department of Geography and Urban Studies, former director of Asian Studies, and former Associate Dean at Temple University Japan Campus (TUJ). He is presently on leave (academic year 2010-2011) and is a Fulbright Scholar in Kyiv, Ukraine, attached to the Sociology Department of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
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Education: 1972 – Ph.D. in Geography, The Pennsylvania State University |
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Courses: GUS 0831 Global Cities GUS 1025 World Urban PatternsGUS 2025 American Place: Home City Region GUS 2074 Geography of South, Southeast and East Asia GUS 4014/5015 Urban Social Geography
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Teaching: Professor Cybriwsky has been at Temple since 1972. He teaches courses about world cities, Asian geography and the geography of North America at the undergraduate level, and about urban-social geography and global cities at the graduate level. His lectures are profusely illustrated with photos from his travels and his research abroad. |
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Research: Dr. Cybriwsky's research interests include urban-social geography, urban planning and development, social aspects of the built environment, and neighborhood social change. He has worked in several of the world's largest cities, including New York, Tokyo and Jakarta, as well as in central Philadelphia and Phnom Penh , Cambodia . He also works on the geography of Japan and Pacific Asia more generally. His current research opens a new geographic region, the changing face of post-Soviet cities. He is currently working in Kyiv, Ukraine and traveling widely in Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and other countries in the region.
Much of Dr. Cybriwsky's recent research focused on the growth and development of Tokyo and the city's challenges for urban planners. He has written extensively about that city, including books entitled “Tokyo: The Changing Profile of an Urban Giant” (1991); “Historical Dictionary of Tokyo” (1997); and “Tokyo: The Shogun's City at the 21st Century” (1998). He has recently completed two additional books set in Tokyo: a new and much enlarged edition of “Historical Dictionary of Tokyo” (in press, 2011); and “Roppongi Crossing: The Demise of a Tokyo Nightclub District and the Reshaping of a Global City’ (in press, 2011, University of Georgia Press). He is also working on Planeta Tokio, a coffee-table book with his own photographs of Tokyo's “secret places” and accompanying text in Ukrainian and English.. The tentative title of his book about Kyiv is “Contested Kyiv: Identity, Space, Society.”
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