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. Repräsentationen touristischer Räume: Architektonische Überlegungen

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    20.01.2005

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  2. Räume des Tourismus: Vom Verschwinden und Entstehen von Landschaften

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    02.06.2003

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  3. Projekte an der Waterfront in Hamburg

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    16.03.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  4. Postmoderne Mutationen – Aktualisierung des Kulturerbes als Entortung

    Saretzki, A. (Speaker)

    11.11.2005

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  5. Poetic Water Images in Architecture

    Kirschner, U. (Speaker)

    18.09.200620.09.2006

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. Planificación urbanistica de la ciudad portuaria de Hamburgo

    Kirschner, U. (Speaker)

    20.03.2006

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  7. Places of Postmodern Sociality

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    22.06.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  8. Pflege der Negation. Zur Produktion negativer Realitätsbezüge als Reiseauslöser

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    06.11.1999

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. Perception of Space and Time in a Created Environment

    Kirschner, U. (Speaker)

    14.09.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  10. Paradisierung von Räumen – Über das Verschwinden von Raum-Zeit-Bezügen

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    04.03.2000

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

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