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
Havanna - Welkulturerbe (am Abgrund?)
Pries, M. (Speaker)
24.06.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Havanna - Welkulturerbe (am Abgrund?)
Pries, M. (Speaker)
17.05.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung e.V. (External organisation)
Pez, P. (Coordinator)
11.2013 → …Activity: Membership › Bodies of public institutions › Education
Heritagefication: Sakralisierung von Räumen
Wöhler, K. (Speaker)
11.11.2005Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
II. Kolloquium des italienisch-deutschen Komitees für die Wissenschaft: "Technologische Entwicklung, Dialog zwischen Forschung und Industrie sowie Wettbewerbsfähigkeit des Standortes Europa" 1999
Wöhler, K. (Participant)
24.06.1999 → 27.06.1999Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Inaugural Conference of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies 2012
Saretzki, A. (Speaker)
06.06.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Industriekultur im Leinebergland: Ergebnisse eines Forschungsprojektes
Pries, M. (Speaker)
04.03.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Interdisziplinäre Tagung "Konstruktion von Tourismusräumen"
Wöhler, K. (Speaker)
28.11.2008 → 29.11.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
International Tourism Conference - 2006
Wöhler, K. (Speaker)
21.11.2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
International Workshop of the Regional Studies Association/Rovira i Virgili University, Catalonia
Saretzki, A. (Speaker)
10.02.2014 → 13.02.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research