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
Destination Governance – A New Management Concept for Tourism Destinations?
Saretzki, A. (Speaker)
24.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Deutscher Kongress für Geographie - DKG 2015 (Fachsitzung Geographien der Erinnerung RE-FS-24)
Saretzki, A. (Speaker)
04.10.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Deutscher Kongress für Geographie - DKG 2015 (Fachsitzung Touristifizierung städtischer Quartiere – Synergien und Konflikte zwischen tourismusgerechter Stadt und stadtgerechtem Tourismus, SL-FS-07A)
Wöhler, K. (Speaker)
03.10.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
DFG Gutachtertätigkeit
Kirschner, U. (Reviewer)
2014 → 2015Activity: Other expert activities › Peer review of project proposals › Research
Didactical design methods applied in design studios for Architectural and Cultural Sciences in Brazil: Experiment Digital Space: composition with elements design by Mies van der Rohe and the importance of their Web presentation
Kirschner, U. (Speaker)
17.09.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Die Bedeutung der Backstein-Architektur für das Tourismus-Marketing
Pries, M. (Speaker)
25.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Die geopolitische Bedeutung des Hamburger Hafens
Pries, M. (Speaker)
25.01.2008 → 26.01.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Die Hafen City Hamburg - Stadt der Zukunft?
Pries, M. (Speaker)
17.09.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Die Lüneburger Heide goes digital
Pries, M. (Speaker)
04.03.2005Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Die Lüneburger Landwehr
Pries, M. (Speaker)
01.06.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research