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
- 2015
Deutscher Kongress für Geographie - DKG 2015 (Fachsitzung Touristifizierung städtischer Quartiere – Synergien und Konflikte zwischen tourismusgerechter Stadt und stadtgerechtem Tourismus, SL-FS-07A)
Karlheinz Wöhler (Speaker)
03.10.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
- 2014
Schreckgespenst Gentrification? Das Beispiel Hamburg Ottensen
Martin Pries (Lecturer)
15.11.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Tourismus auf den Spuren der "Schatten des Windes": Vom Zusammenspiel medialer Bedeutungskonstruktion und performativer touristischer Praxen
Anja Saretzki (Speaker)
24.09.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Dispositives Internet-Storytelling: multimediale Konstitution des touristischen Blicks
Karlheinz Wöhler (Speaker)
23.09.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
11th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization & Engineering - CDVE 2014
Ursula Kirschner (presenter)
14.09.2014 → 17.09.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Perception of Space and Time in a Created Environment
Ursula Kirschner (Speaker)
14.09.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Tagung am Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung: "Geschichte als Erlebnis: Performative Praktiken in der Geschichtskultur"
Karlheinz Wöhler (Speaker)
05.07.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Die Zeit des Tourismus
Karlheinz Wöhler (Speaker)
28.03.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Vom Schreiben und Lesen der Stadt. LiteraTouristische Erkundigungen des Urbanen
Anja Saretzki (Speaker)
28.03.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
International Workshop of the Regional Studies Association/Rovira i Virgili University, Catalonia
Anja Saretzki (Speaker)
10.02.2014 → 13.02.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research