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
- 1999
5. Arbeitstagung der Kommission Tourismusforschung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Volkskunde 1999
Karlheinz Wöhler (Speaker)
23.04.1999Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
- 1998
Architecture, a Mathematical Science - Teaching Experimental CAAD: Proportions and Harmonies
Ursula Kirschner (Speaker)
26.09.1998Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Verband für Geographie an deutschsprachigen Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen (External organisation)
Peter Pez (Executive member)
1998Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
Verband für Geographie an deutschsprachigen Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen (External organisation)
Peter Pez (Member)
1998Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Research
- 1996
Teaching Experimental Design with CAAD
Ursula Kirschner (Speaker)
18.09.1996Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research