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
Repräsentationen touristischer Räume: Architektonische Überlegungen
Wöhler, K. (Speaker)
20.01.2005Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Räume des Tourismus: Vom Verschwinden und Entstehen von Landschaften
Wöhler, K. (Speaker)
02.06.2003Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Projekte an der Waterfront in Hamburg
Pries, M. (Speaker)
16.03.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Postmoderne Mutationen – Aktualisierung des Kulturerbes als Entortung
Saretzki, A. (Speaker)
11.11.2005Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
Poetic Water Images in Architecture
Kirschner, U. (Speaker)
18.09.2006 → 20.09.2006Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Planificación urbanistica de la ciudad portuaria de Hamburgo
Kirschner, U. (Speaker)
20.03.2006Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Places of Postmodern Sociality
Wöhler, K. (Speaker)
22.06.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Pflege der Negation. Zur Produktion negativer Realitätsbezüge als Reiseauslöser
Wöhler, K. (Speaker)
06.11.1999Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Perception of Space and Time in a Created Environment
Kirschner, U. (Speaker)
14.09.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Paradisierung von Räumen – Über das Verschwinden von Raum-Zeit-Bezügen
Wöhler, K. (Speaker)
04.03.2000Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer