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. So haben wir die Welt gesehen

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    26.01.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  2. Sternechaos – Der Sinn von Klassifizierungen in der Hotellerie

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    18.04.2005

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  3. Study of digital morphing tools in the architectural design process

    Kirschner, U. (Speaker)

    04.12.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. Symposium: "Tourismuspolitik im neuen Jahrtausend. Strukturwandel, neue Trends und Strategien" - 2003

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    03.11.2003

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  5. Tagung am Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung: "Geschichte als Erlebnis: Performative Praktiken in der Geschichtskultur"

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    05.07.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  6. Tagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde - 2001

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    10.10.2001

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  7. Tagung Erfolgskontrolle im Standort- und Regionalmarketing

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    08.04.2005

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  8. Tagung: "Freizeit und Sport in Natur und Landschaft" - 1999

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    03.12.1999

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  9. 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

  10. Tagung "Konstruktion von Tourismusräumen" - 2008

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    29.11.2008

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch