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
- 2003
Die Tourismusregion als lernende Region auf dem Weg zur innovativen Organisation
Saretzki, A. (Speaker) & Wöhler, K. (Speaker)
21.11.2003Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
- 2004
Lüneburger Landwehr als Element der Kulturlandschaft
Pries, M. (Speaker)
17.03.2004Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Trends Towards Pure Leisure: Leisure as Ritual Performance
Wöhler, K. (Speaker)
11.11.2004Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Wellness as a Hybrid Phenomenon
Saretzki, A. (Speaker)
11.11.2004Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
- 2005
Repräsentationen touristischer Räume: Architektonische Überlegungen
Wöhler, K. (Speaker)
20.01.2005Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Die Lüneburger Heide goes digital
Pries, M. (Speaker)
04.03.2005Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Tagung Erfolgskontrolle im Standort- und Regionalmarketing
Wöhler, K. (Speaker)
08.04.2005Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Sternechaos – Der Sinn von Klassifizierungen in der Hotellerie
Wöhler, K. (Speaker)
18.04.2005Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Die Lüneburger Landwehr als Element der Kulturlandschaft
Pries, M. (Speaker)
05.05.2005Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
E-learning in Creative Planning Processes - Relational Methods of Designing on Differentiated Types of Model
Kirschner, U. (Speaker)
22.09.2005Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research