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. Havanna - Welkulturerbe (am Abgrund?)

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    24.06.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  2. Havanna - Welkulturerbe (am Abgrund?)

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    17.05.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  3. Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung e.V. (External organisation)

    Pez, P. (Coordinator)

    11.2013 → …

    Activity: MembershipBodies of public institutionsEducation

  4. Heritagefication: Sakralisierung von Räumen

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    11.11.2005

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  5. 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)

    24.06.199927.06.1999

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

  6. Inaugural Conference of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies 2012

    Saretzki, A. (Speaker)

    06.06.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  7. Industriekultur im Leinebergland: Ergebnisse eines Forschungsprojektes

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    04.03.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  8. Interdisziplinäre Tagung "Konstruktion von Tourismusräumen"

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    28.11.200829.11.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. International Tourism Conference - 2006

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    21.11.2006

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  10. International Workshop of the Regional Studies Association/Rovira i Virgili University, Catalonia

    Saretzki, A. (Speaker)

    10.02.201413.02.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

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