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. 2006
  2. Großbritannien im Unterricht

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    08.09.2006

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  3. Poetic Water Images in Architecture

    Kirschner, U. (Speaker)

    18.09.200620.09.2006

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. Lüneburg - Stadt auf dem Salz

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    28.09.2006

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  5. International Tourism Conference - 2006

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    21.11.2006

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  6. Tagung "From the Old to the New Tourism: Managing Change in the Tourism Industry" - 2006

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    01.12.2006

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  7. 2007
  8. So haben wir die Welt gesehen

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    26.01.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  9. "Urlaub machen" als performatives Geschehen

    Saretzki, A. (Speaker)

    26.01.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  10. Was wollen die Touristiker mit dem Pilgerweg

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    08.02.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  11. National Technological University (UTN)

    Kirschner, U. (Visiting researcher)

    26.02.200726.03.2007

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionEducation

  12. Projekte an der Waterfront in Hamburg

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    16.03.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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