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. Poetic Water Images in Architecture

    Kirschner, U. (Speaker)

    18.09.200620.09.2006

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  2. Postmoderne Mutationen – Aktualisierung des Kulturerbes als Entortung

    Saretzki, A. (Speaker)

    11.11.2005

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  3. Projekte an der Waterfront in Hamburg

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    16.03.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  4. Räume des Tourismus: Vom Verschwinden und Entstehen von Landschaften

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    02.06.2003

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  5. Repräsentationen touristischer Räume: Architektonische Überlegungen

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    20.01.2005

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  6. RVF 3.0 - von der Theorie in die Praxis mit Meldetool und LGMaps

    Seidel, A. (Speaker)

    01.04.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  7. Salzburger Tourismusforum - 2007

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    19.10.2007

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  8. School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)

    Pez, P. (Member)

    2011 → …

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  9. Schreckgespenst Gentrification? Das Beispiel Hamburg Ottensen

    Pries, M. (Lecturer)

    15.11.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  10. Senkungen als Folge der Rohstoffförderung

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    23.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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