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
Urban Entertainment Center - Tod der Innenstädte?
Pries, M. (Speaker)
18.06.2009Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
University of Sao Paulo
Kirschner, U. (Visiting researcher)
02.03.2008 → 16.03.2008Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Education
Umweltverträglicher Tourismus: Zur Vergesellschaftung von Natur
Wöhler, K. (Speaker)
12.06.2001Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Trends Towards Pure Leisure: Leisure as Ritual Performance
Wöhler, K. (Speaker)
11.11.2004Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Tourist Spaces as Heterotopias. Touristification and the Generation of Identity as Inter-connected Logics of Action
Saretzki, A. (Speaker)
22.06.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Tourists as Post-traditional Communities
Wöhler, K. (Speaker)
12.07.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Touristische Vermarktung von Märkten: Von der Eigenversorgung zum Erlebniskonsum
Wöhler, K. (Speaker)
16.11.2002Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Touristifizierung der Kultur oder Kulturalisierung des Tourismus?
Wöhler, K. (Speaker)
20.10.2003Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Tourismus auf den Spuren der "Schatten des Windes": Vom Zusammenspiel medialer Bedeutungskonstruktion und performativer touristischer Praxen
Saretzki, A. (Speaker)
24.09.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Thuringian "Road of Classic": Road to Forget and Road of Memory, History, National Identity and Image Politics
Wöhler, K. (Speaker)
15.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research