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. 2009
  2. Kulturelles Erbe – Ausstieg aus der Moderne?

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    19.11.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  3. Die Welt auf dem Papier: Wie der Grundschulatlas Niedersachsen zum Verstehen der räumlichen Umwelt beitragen kann

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    04.11.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  4. Die Welt auf dem Papier: Wie der Haack Atlas Hamburg zum Verstehen der Lebenswelt der Kinder beitragen kann

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    31.10.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  5. Die Welt auf dem Papier: Wie der Grundschulatlas zum Verstehen der räumlichen Umwelt beitragen kann

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    28.10.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  6. Culture as Value Added Industry and as Embedded Life: Culture as Part of Touristic Products

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    30.06.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  7. Culture Meets Economy - 2009

    Saretzki, A. (Speaker)

    30.06.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  8. Kultur zur Rettung der Innenstadt

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    20.06.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  9. Urban Entertainment Center - Tod der Innenstädte?

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    18.06.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  10. ECE - Tod der Innenstädte?

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    05.06.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  11. Die Welt auf dem Papier: Wie der Grundschulatlas Niedersachsen zum Verstehen der räumlichen Umwelt beitragen kann

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    05.03.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  12. Industriekultur im Leinebergland: Ergebnisse eines Forschungsprojektes

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    04.03.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  13. Der 11. September und seine Bedeutung für die Waterfront in Downtown Manhattan

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    11.02.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  14. 2008
  15. Forschungskolloquium "Grenzenlos? Blicke auf den modernen Tourismus und die Tourismusforschung" 2008

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    16.12.2008

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  16. Study of digital morphing tools in the architectural design process

    Kirschner, U. (Speaker)

    04.12.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  17. Tagung "Konstruktion von Tourismusräumen" - 2008

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    29.11.2008

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  18. Interdisziplinäre Tagung "Konstruktion von Tourismusräumen"

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    28.11.200829.11.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  19. Das Leinebergland - Eine Region auf der Suche nach ihrer Identität

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    11.11.2008

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch