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

  1. 2012
  2. Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Organisational unit)

    Peter Pez (Coordinator)

    01.01.2012

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  3. 2011
  4. New York - Hamburg. Zwei Waterfronts im Wandel

    Martin Pries (Speaker)

    19.12.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  5. Senkungen als Folge der Rohstoffförderung

    Martin Pries (Speaker)

    23.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  6. Kulturelles Erbe und Tourismus: Eröffnungsvortrag

    Martin Pries (Speaker)

    21.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  7. Waterfront-Cities

    Martin Pries (Speaker)

    16.09.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  8. Havanna - Welkulturerbe (am Abgrund?)

    Martin Pries (Speaker)

    24.06.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  9. Die Rolle der Kultur im Städtetourismus

    Karlheinz Wöhler (Speaker)

    08.06.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  10. Die Lüneburger Landwehr

    Martin Pries (Speaker)

    01.06.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  11. Havanna - Welkulturerbe (am Abgrund?)

    Martin Pries (Speaker)

    17.05.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  12. School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)

    Peter Pez (Member)

    2011 → …

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

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