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. 2010
  2. Gesellschaftswissenschaften unterrichten

    Martin Pries (Speaker)

    30.10.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  3. Die Hafen City Hamburg - Stadt der Zukunft?

    Martin Pries (Speaker)

    17.09.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  4. 17th International Sociological Association World Congress of Sociology - 2010

    Anja Saretzki (Speaker)

    13.07.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  5. Tourists as Post-traditional Communities

    Karlheinz Wöhler (Speaker)

    12.07.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. Places of Postmodern Sociality

    Karlheinz Wöhler (Speaker)

    22.06.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  7. Tourist Spaces as Heterotopias. Touristification and the Generation of Identity as Inter-connected Logics of Action

    Anja Saretzki (Speaker)

    22.06.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  8. Manchester - Eine Stadt erfindet sich neu

    Martin Pries (Speaker)

    17.06.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  9. Konferenz: ,,Tourismus im Spannungsfeld von Polaritäten" - 2010

    Karlheinz Wöhler (Speaker)

    26.04.2010

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  10. Welterbetourismus zwischen lokalem Erbe und globaler Vermarktung

    Anja Saretzki (Speaker)

    26.04.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  11. Welt- und Selbsterschließung im Modus des Reisens

    Karlheinz Wöhler (Speaker)

    26.04.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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