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
- 2002
Wie wird man ein umweltverträglicher Tourist?
Wöhler, K. (Speaker)
19.01.2002Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Konferenz: "Leisure Futures" - 2002
Wöhler, K. (Speaker)
11.04.2002Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Kolloquium: "Tourismus, Umwelt und Sozialentwicklung" 2002
Wöhler, K. (Speaker)
25.05.2002Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Touristische Vermarktung von Märkten: Von der Eigenversorgung zum Erlebniskonsum
Wöhler, K. (Speaker)
16.11.2002Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
5. Salzburger Tourismusforum: "Ferntourismus – Wohin? Der globale Tourismus erobert den Horizont", INIT – Institut für interdisziplinäre Tourismusforschung der Universität Salzburg 2003
Saretzki, A. (Speaker) & Wöhler, K. (Speaker)
29.11.2002Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
- 2003
Räume des Tourismus: Vom Verschwinden und Entstehen von Landschaften
Wöhler, K. (Speaker)
02.06.2003Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Touristifizierung der Kultur oder Kulturalisierung des Tourismus?
Wöhler, K. (Speaker)
20.10.2003Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
ak:ai Arbeitskreis Architekturinformatik (External organisation)
Kirschner, U. (Member)
11.2003 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Symposium: "Tourismuspolitik im neuen Jahrtausend. Strukturwandel, neue Trends und Strategien" - 2003
Wöhler, K. (Speaker)
03.11.2003Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
7. Arbeitstagung der Kommission 'Tourismusforschung' innerhalb der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Volkskunde 2003
Wöhler, K. (Speaker)
14.11.2003Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research