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. 2014
  2. Perception of Space and Time in a Created Environment

    Kirschner, U. (Speaker)

    14.09.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  3. Dispositives Internet-Storytelling: multimediale Konstitution des touristischen Blicks

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    23.09.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. Schreckgespenst Gentrification? Das Beispiel Hamburg Ottensen

    Pries, M. (Lecturer)

    15.11.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  5. 2015
  6. Deutscher Kongress für Geographie - DKG 2015 (Fachsitzung Geographien der Erinnerung RE-FS-24)

    Saretzki, A. (Speaker)

    04.10.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  7. 2016
  8. 2017
  9. At Home in Foreign Parts – An Alien in Your Own City: De-Differentiation of Postmodern Touristness

    Saretzki, A. (Speaker)

    12.05.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  10. Dislimitation of Urban Tourism

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    12.05.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  11. Frontier Zones International Summer School 2017

    Großmann, R. (Speaker)

    10.07.201723.07.2017

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