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

  1. 2011
  2. Waterfront-Cities

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    16.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  3. Kulturelles Erbe und Tourismus: Eröffnungsvortrag

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    21.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  4. Senkungen als Folge der Rohstoffförderung

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    23.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  5. New York - Hamburg. Zwei Waterfronts im Wandel

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    19.12.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  6. 2012
  7. Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Organisational unit)

    Pez, P. (Coordinator)

    01.01.2012

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  8. Wo arbeiten wir in Zukunft

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    23.01.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  9. Inaugural Conference of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies 2012

    Saretzki, A. (Speaker)

    06.06.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  10. Literary Trails: A Chance for Heritage or just the Disneyfication of Cityscapes?

    Saretzki, A. (Speaker)

    13.06.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  11. Thuringian "Road of Classic": Road to Forget and Road of Memory, History, National Identity and Image Politics

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    15.06.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  12. 19. Internationale Tagung "Ziegeleigeschichte / Ziegeleimuseen" 2012

    Pries, M. (Organiser)

    24.06.201226.06.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

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