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.
Topics
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
- 2018
Mapping Urban Information as an Interdisciplinary Method for Geography, Art and Architecture Representations
Ursula Kirschner (Speaker)
18.09.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Architektur Weltweit DAAD
Ursula Kirschner (Reviewer)
2018 → …Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Education
Erasmus + Mobilität mit Partnerländern (KA107)
Ursula Kirschner (Reviewer)
2018 → …Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Research
Mitglied in der Berufungskommission "Mediale Architekturdarstellung"
Ursula Kirschner (Reviewer)
2018 → 2019Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Education
- 2017
A Hermeneutic Interpretation of Concepts in a Cooperative Multicultural Working Project
Ursula Kirschner (Speaker)
12.09.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Frontier Zones International Summer School 2017
Rolf Großmann (Speaker)
10.07.2017 → 23.07.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
At Home in Foreign Parts – An Alien in Your Own City: De-Differentiation of Postmodern Touristness
Anja Saretzki (Speaker)
12.05.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Dislimitation of Urban Tourism
Karlheinz Wöhler (Speaker)
12.05.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
- 2016
Der 'lokale' Baustoff als konstitutives Element der Stadtlandschaft: Eine kulturgeographische Untersuchung der 'Backsteinstadt Lüneburg'
Antje Seidel (Lecturer)
15.11.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
- 2015
Deutscher Kongress für Geographie - DKG 2015 (Fachsitzung Geographien der Erinnerung RE-FS-24)
Anja Saretzki (Speaker)
04.10.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research