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. 2012
  2. Die Bedeutung der Backstein-Architektur für das Tourismus-Marketing

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    25.06.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  3. C. W. Hase und seine Bedeutung für das Bauen im ländlichen Raum

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    26.06.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. Geographenexkursion 2012

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    14.07.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesEducation

  5. Challenges for the Positioning of Destinations: Destination Formation Processes and Territorial Boundaries

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    24.08.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. Destination Governance – A New Management Concept for Tourism Destinations?

    Saretzki, A. (Speaker)

    24.08.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  7. Forum Erdkunde 2012

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    22.09.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesEducation

  8. 2013
  9. Books on Demand GmbH (Publisher)

    Pries, M. (Editor)

    2013

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of seriesResearch

  10. Conference Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering (External organisation)

    Kirschner, U. (Member)

    2013 → …

    Activity: MembershipAcademic councils, panels and committeesResearch

  11. Forum Baukultur Lüneburg e.V. (External organisation)

    Kirschner, U. (Executive member)

    2013 → …

    Activity: MembershipAcademic networks or partnershipsTransfer