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. Tourist Spaces as Heterotopias. Touristification and the Generation of Identity as Inter-connected Logics of Action

    Saretzki, A. (Speaker)

    22.06.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  2. Trends Towards Pure Leisure: Leisure as Ritual Performance

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    11.11.2004

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  3. Umweltverträglicher Tourismus: Zur Vergesellschaftung von Natur

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    12.06.2001

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  4. University of Sao Paulo

    Kirschner, U. (Visiting researcher)

    02.03.200816.03.2008

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionEducation

  5. Urban Entertainment Center - Tod der Innenstädte?

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    18.06.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  6. Urban Transdisciplinary Co-study in a Cooperative Multicultural Working Project

    Kirschner, U. (Speaker)

    24.10.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  7. "Urlaub machen" als performatives Geschehen

    Saretzki, A. (Speaker)

    26.01.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  8. Verband für Geographie an deutschsprachigen Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen (External organisation)

    Pez, P. (Executive member)

    1998

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsResearch

  9. Verband für Geographie an deutschsprachigen Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen (External organisation)

    Pez, P. (Member)

    1998

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsResearch

  10. Virtualisierung von touristischen Räumen

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    05.12.2001

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation