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

  1. 2007
  2. Salzburger Tourismusforum - 2007

    Karlheinz Wöhler (Speaker)

    19.10.2007

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  3. Erfahrung des Bösen an fremden Orten

    Karlheinz Wöhler (Speaker)

    12.10.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. Medialization of Touristic Reality: The Berlin Wall Revisited

    Anja Saretzki (Speaker)

    15.06.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  5. Only the Imagined Has Existence

    Karlheinz Wöhler (Speaker)

    15.06.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. Tagung "Topologien des Reisens" - 2007

    Karlheinz Wöhler (Speaker)

    02.06.2007

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  7. Projekte an der Waterfront in Hamburg

    Martin Pries (Speaker)

    16.03.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  8. National Technological University (UTN)

    Ursula Kirschner (Visiting researcher)

    26.02.200726.03.2007

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionEducation

  9. Was wollen die Touristiker mit dem Pilgerweg

    Karlheinz Wöhler (Speaker)

    08.02.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  10. So haben wir die Welt gesehen

    Karlheinz Wöhler (Speaker)

    26.01.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  11. "Urlaub machen" als performatives Geschehen

    Anja Saretzki (Speaker)

    26.01.2007

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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