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. 2013
  2. 58. Deutscher Geographentag 2013

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    03.10.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  3. Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung e.V. (External organisation)

    Pez, P. (Coordinator)

    11.2013 → …

    Activity: MembershipBodies of public institutionsEducation

  4. Kulturstraßen als Konzept: 20 Jahre Straße der Romanik - 2013

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    14.11.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  5. 2014
  6. DFG Gutachtertätigkeit

    Kirschner, U. (Reviewer)

    20142015

    Activity: Other expert activitiesPeer review of project proposalsResearch

  7. Workshop "Stadtforschung meets Heritage" 2014

    Saretzki, A. (Speaker)

    24.01.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  8. International Workshop of the Regional Studies Association/Rovira i Virgili University, Catalonia

    Saretzki, A. (Speaker)

    10.02.201413.02.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  9. Die Zeit des Tourismus

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    28.03.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  10. Vom Schreiben und Lesen der Stadt. LiteraTouristische Erkundigungen des Urbanen

    Saretzki, A. (Speaker)

    28.03.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  11. Tagung am Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung: "Geschichte als Erlebnis: Performative Praktiken in der Geschichtskultur"

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    05.07.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  12. 11th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization & Engineering - CDVE 2014

    Kirschner, U. (presenter)

    14.09.201417.09.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch