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
- 2012
Challenges for the Positioning of Destinations: Destination Formation Processes and Territorial Boundaries
Karlheinz Wöhler (Speaker)
24.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Destination Governance – A New Management Concept for Tourism Destinations?
Anja Saretzki (Speaker)
24.08.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Geographenexkursion 2012
Martin Pries (Speaker)
14.07.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Education
C. W. Hase und seine Bedeutung für das Bauen im ländlichen Raum
Martin Pries (Speaker)
26.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Die Bedeutung der Backstein-Architektur für das Tourismus-Marketing
Martin Pries (Speaker)
25.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
19. Internationale Tagung "Ziegeleigeschichte / Ziegeleimuseen" 2012
Martin Pries (Organiser)
24.06.2012 → 26.06.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Thuringian "Road of Classic": Road to Forget and Road of Memory, History, National Identity and Image Politics
Karlheinz Wöhler (Speaker)
15.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Literary Trails: A Chance for Heritage or just the Disneyfication of Cityscapes?
Anja Saretzki (Speaker)
13.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Inaugural Conference of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies 2012
Anja Saretzki (Speaker)
06.06.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Wo arbeiten wir in Zukunft
Martin Pries (Speaker)
23.01.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer