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
Tagung "Topologien des Reisens" - 2007
Wöhler, K. (Speaker)
02.06.2007Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tagung: "Trouble in Paradise – Zu den Auswirkungen des (Massen-)Tourismus auf Ökologie und Entwicklung in den Ländern des Südens", Evangelische Akademie Hofgeismar
Wöhler, K. (Speaker)
30.09.1999Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Teaching Experimental Design with CAAD
Kirschner, U. (Speaker)
18.09.1996Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The European City since the Second World War
Pries, M. (Lecturer)
18.03.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
The Use of Media in Intercultural Dialogue "dialogo_dialog"!: Investigation of a Research Event in Terms of Communication without Language
Kirschner, U. (Speaker)
23.09.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Thuringian "Road of Classic": Road to Forget and Road of Memory, History, National Identity and Image Politics
Wöhler, K. (Speaker)
15.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Tourismus auf den Spuren der "Schatten des Windes": Vom Zusammenspiel medialer Bedeutungskonstruktion und performativer touristischer Praxen
Saretzki, A. (Speaker)
24.09.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Touristifizierung der Kultur oder Kulturalisierung des Tourismus?
Wöhler, K. (Speaker)
20.10.2003Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Touristische Vermarktung von Märkten: Von der Eigenversorgung zum Erlebniskonsum
Wöhler, K. (Speaker)
16.11.2002Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Tourists as Post-traditional Communities
Wöhler, K. (Speaker)
12.07.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research