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
Das Leinebergland - Eine Region auf der Suche nach ihrer Identität
Pries, M. (Speaker)
11.11.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Das Gedächtnis eines Ortes. Das Kommunizieren, Speichern und Vergessen von Kulturerbe in Elx
Saretzki, A. (Speaker)
20.11.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
C. W. Hase und seine Bedeutung für das Bauen im ländlichen Raum
Pries, M. (Speaker)
26.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Culture Meets Economy - 2009
Saretzki, A. (Speaker)
30.06.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Culture as Value Added Industry and as Embedded Life: Culture as Part of Touristic Products
Wöhler, K. (Speaker)
30.06.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Cultural Haritage and Memory
Kirschner, U. (Speaker)
27.11.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Conference Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering (External organisation)
Kirschner, U. (Member)
2013 → …Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Research
Cities in the Industrial Revolution
Pries, M. (Lecturer)
17.03.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Challenges for the Positioning of Destinations: Destination Formation Processes and Territorial Boundaries
Wöhler, K. (Speaker)
24.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Books on Demand GmbH (Publisher)
Pries, M. (Editor)
2013Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of series › Research