Institute of Urban and Cultural Area Research
Organisational unit: Institute
Organisation profile
The Institute for Urban and Cultural Area Research is part of the School of Culture and Society at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg. It is divided into the departments of Building Culture, Cultural Geography and Tourism Studies.
Main research areas
Department Cultural Geography
In the Department of Cultural Geography, the question of the relation to space plays a major role. From this geographical perspective, cultural landscape research is conducted, also in the historical-geographical sense. Not only from a historical perspective urban spaces are examined in urban-geographical contexts. Further focal points are geographic transport research and economic-geographic issues.
An overview of the fields of research:
- Transport Geography
- Economic Geography
- City Geography
- (Historical) Cultural Landscape Research
Department of Building Culture
Overview of the research fields:
- Digital and haptic architecture models
- Computer integration in the creative planning process
- Revitalization - Cultural heritage
- Perception of city and space
Department of Tourism Studies
The research of the Department of Tourism Studies covers the following areas:
- Travel/holidays as leisure activity and appropriation of space
- Leisure as a late-modern phenomenon
- Touristification of rooms
- Control of destination tourism areas
- Travel behavior and security
- Tourism marketing/-management
- Room consumption
- 1996
Teaching Experimental Design with CAAD
Kirschner, U. (Speaker)
18.09.1996Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
- 1998
Verband für Geographie an deutschsprachigen Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen (External organisation)
Pez, P. (Executive member)
1998Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Verband für Geographie an deutschsprachigen Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen (External organisation)
Pez, P. (Member)
1998Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Architecture, a Mathematical Science - Teaching Experimental CAAD: Proportions and Harmonies
Kirschner, U. (Speaker)
26.09.1998Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
- 1999
5. Arbeitstagung der Kommission Tourismusforschung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Volkskunde 1999
Wöhler, K. (Speaker)
23.04.1999Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
II. Kolloquium des italienisch-deutschen Komitees für die Wissenschaft: "Technologische Entwicklung, Dialog zwischen Forschung und Industrie sowie Wettbewerbsfähigkeit des Standortes Europa" 1999
Wöhler, K. (Participant)
24.06.1999 → 27.06.1999Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Tagung: "Trouble in Paradise – Zu den Auswirkungen des (Massen-)Tourismus auf Ökologie und Entwicklung in den Ländern des Südens", Evangelische Akademie Hofgeismar
Wöhler, K. (Speaker)
30.09.1999Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Wieviel Umwelt braucht der Tourist?
Saretzki, A. (Speaker)
05.11.1999Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Pflege der Negation. Zur Produktion negativer Realitätsbezüge als Reiseauslöser
Wöhler, K. (Speaker)
06.11.1999Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Tagung: "Freizeit und Sport in Natur und Landschaft" - 1999
Wöhler, K. (Speaker)
03.12.1999Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer