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. 2005
  2. Repräsentationen touristischer Räume: Architektonische Überlegungen

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    20.01.2005

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  3. 2004
  4. Trends Towards Pure Leisure: Leisure as Ritual Performance

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    11.11.2004

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  5. Wellness as a Hybrid Phenomenon

    Saretzki, A. (Speaker)

    11.11.2004

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. Lüneburger Landwehr als Element der Kulturlandschaft

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    17.03.2004

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  7. 2003
  8. Die Tourismusregion als lernende Region auf dem Weg zur innovativen Organisation

    Saretzki, A. (Speaker) & Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    21.11.2003

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. 7. Arbeitstagung der Kommission 'Tourismusforschung' innerhalb der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Volkskunde 2003

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    14.11.2003

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  10. Symposium: "Tourismuspolitik im neuen Jahrtausend. Strukturwandel, neue Trends und Strategien" - 2003

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    03.11.2003

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  11. ak:ai Arbeitskreis Architekturinformatik (External organisation)

    Kirschner, U. (Member)

    11.2003 → …

    Activity: MembershipAcademic networks or partnershipsResearch

  12. Touristifizierung der Kultur oder Kulturalisierung des Tourismus?

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    20.10.2003

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

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

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    02.06.2003

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer