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. Die Welt auf dem Papier: Wie der Haack Atlas Niedersachsen zum Verstehen der Lebenswelt der Kinder beitragen kann

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    12.04.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  2. Die Zeit des Tourismus

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    28.03.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  3. Dislimitation of Urban Tourism

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    12.05.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. Dispositives Internet-Storytelling: multimediale Konstitution des touristischen Blicks

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    23.09.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  5. Early Urbanisation in Europe

    Pries, M. (Lecturer)

    16.03.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  6. ECE - Tod der Innenstädte?

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    05.06.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  7. Einkaufszentrum gegen Innenstadt?

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    04.02.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  8. Ein vertiefter Blick auf den Salzstock Gorleben

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    12.10.2005

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  9. E-learning in Creative Planning Processes - Relational Methods of Designing on Differentiated Types of Model

    Kirschner, U. (Speaker)

    22.09.2005

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  10. Erasmus + Mobilität mit Partnerländern (KA107)

    Kirschner, U. (Reviewer)

    2018

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantResearch

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