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
- 2007
Tagung "Topologien des Reisens" - 2007
Wöhler, K. (Speaker)
02.06.2007Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Medialization of Touristic Reality: The Berlin Wall Revisited
Saretzki, A. (Speaker)
15.06.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Only the Imagined Has Existence
Wöhler, K. (Speaker)
15.06.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Erfahrung des Bösen an fremden Orten
Wöhler, K. (Speaker)
12.10.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Salzburger Tourismusforum - 2007
Wöhler, K. (Speaker)
19.10.2007Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Österreichische Volkskundetagung - 2007
Wöhler, K. (Speaker)
15.11.2007Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
- 2008
Die geopolitische Bedeutung des Hamburger Hafens
Pries, M. (Speaker)
25.01.2008 → 26.01.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Die Welt auf dem Papier: Wie der Grundschulatlas Niedersachsen zum Verstehen der räumlichen Umwelt beitragen kann
Pries, M. (Speaker)
01.03.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
University of Sao Paulo
Kirschner, U. (Visiting researcher)
02.03.2008 → 16.03.2008Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Education
Die Welt auf dem Papier: Wie der Haack Atlas Niedersachsen zum Verstehen der Lebenswelt der Kinder beitragen kann
Pries, M. (Speaker)
12.04.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer