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
- 2007
Salzburger Tourismusforum - 2007
Karlheinz Wöhler (Speaker)
19.10.2007Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Erfahrung des Bösen an fremden Orten
Karlheinz Wöhler (Speaker)
12.10.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Medialization of Touristic Reality: The Berlin Wall Revisited
Anja Saretzki (Speaker)
15.06.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Only the Imagined Has Existence
Karlheinz Wöhler (Speaker)
15.06.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Tagung "Topologien des Reisens" - 2007
Karlheinz Wöhler (Speaker)
02.06.2007Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Projekte an der Waterfront in Hamburg
Martin Pries (Speaker)
16.03.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
National Technological University (UTN)
Ursula Kirschner (Visiting researcher)
26.02.2007 → 26.03.2007Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Education
Was wollen die Touristiker mit dem Pilgerweg
Karlheinz Wöhler (Speaker)
08.02.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
So haben wir die Welt gesehen
Karlheinz Wöhler (Speaker)
26.01.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentations (poster etc.) › Research
"Urlaub machen" als performatives Geschehen
Anja Saretzki (Speaker)
26.01.2007Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research