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. Erfahrung des Bösen an fremden Orten

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    12.10.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  2. Eventisierung des Tourismus

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    04.05.2001

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  3. Forschungskolloquium "Grenzenlos? Blicke auf den modernen Tourismus und die Tourismusforschung" 2008

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    16.12.2008

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  4. Forum Baukultur Lüneburg e.V. (External organisation)

    Kirschner, U. (Executive member)

    2013 → …

    Activity: MembershipAcademic networks or partnershipsTransfer

  5. Forum Erdkunde 2012

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    22.09.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesEducation

  6. Frontier Zones International Summer School 2017

    Großmann, R. (Speaker)

    10.07.201723.07.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  7. Geographenexkursion 2012

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    14.07.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesEducation

  8. Gesellschaftswissenschaften unterrichten

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    30.10.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  9. Großbritannien im Unterricht

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    08.09.2006

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  10. Hamburg and its Waterfront. Who reclaims the Egde?

    Pries, M. (Lecturer)

    19.03.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

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