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
- 2010
Gesellschaftswissenschaften unterrichten
Martin Pries (Speaker)
30.10.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Die Hafen City Hamburg - Stadt der Zukunft?
Martin Pries (Speaker)
17.09.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
17th International Sociological Association World Congress of Sociology - 2010
Anja Saretzki (Speaker)
13.07.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Tourists as Post-traditional Communities
Karlheinz Wöhler (Speaker)
12.07.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Places of Postmodern Sociality
Karlheinz Wöhler (Speaker)
22.06.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Tourist Spaces as Heterotopias. Touristification and the Generation of Identity as Inter-connected Logics of Action
Anja Saretzki (Speaker)
22.06.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Manchester - Eine Stadt erfindet sich neu
Martin Pries (Speaker)
17.06.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Konferenz: ,,Tourismus im Spannungsfeld von Polaritäten" - 2010
Karlheinz Wöhler (Speaker)
26.04.2010Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Welterbetourismus zwischen lokalem Erbe und globaler Vermarktung
Anja Saretzki (Speaker)
26.04.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Welt- und Selbsterschließung im Modus des Reisens
Karlheinz Wöhler (Speaker)
26.04.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research