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. 2007
  2. Tagung "Topologien des Reisens" - 2007

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    02.06.2007

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  3. Medialization of Touristic Reality: The Berlin Wall Revisited

    Saretzki, A. (Speaker)

    15.06.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. Only the Imagined Has Existence

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    15.06.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  5. Erfahrung des Bösen an fremden Orten

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    12.10.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. Salzburger Tourismusforum - 2007

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    19.10.2007

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  7. Österreichische Volkskundetagung - 2007

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    15.11.2007

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  8. 2008
  9. Die geopolitische Bedeutung des Hamburger Hafens

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    25.01.200826.01.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  10. Die Welt auf dem Papier: Wie der Grundschulatlas Niedersachsen zum Verstehen der räumlichen Umwelt beitragen kann

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    01.03.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  11. University of Sao Paulo

    Kirschner, U. (Visiting researcher)

    02.03.200816.03.2008

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionEducation

  12. Die Welt auf dem Papier: Wie der Haack Atlas Niedersachsen zum Verstehen der Lebenswelt der Kinder beitragen kann

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    12.04.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

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