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. 2006
  2. Tagung "From the Old to the New Tourism: Managing Change in the Tourism Industry" - 2006

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    01.12.2006

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  3. International Tourism Conference - 2006

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    21.11.2006

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  4. Lüneburg - Stadt auf dem Salz

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    28.09.2006

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  5. Poetic Water Images in Architecture

    Kirschner, U. (Speaker)

    18.09.200620.09.2006

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. Großbritannien im Unterricht

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    08.09.2006

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  7. Workshop: "Transfer of Tourism Knowledge and Tourism Results – Publishing Issues of the Future" - 2006

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    06.09.2006

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  8. Die Lüneburger Landwehr als Element der Kulturlandschaft

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    22.08.2006

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  9. Die Physiogeographie des Exkursionsgebietes Elbtal

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    09.06.2006

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  10. Vom Hafen zur City - Städtebauliche Projekte im Hamburger Hafen

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    09.05.2006

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  11. Planificación urbanistica de la ciudad portuaria de Hamburgo

    Kirschner, U. (Speaker)

    20.03.2006

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  12. Die Lüneburger Landwehr

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    08.02.2006

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  13. 2005
  14. Heritagefication: Sakralisierung von Räumen

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    11.11.2005

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  15. Postmoderne Mutationen – Aktualisierung des Kulturerbes als Entortung

    Saretzki, A. (Speaker)

    11.11.2005

    Activity: Talk or presentationPresentations (poster etc.)Research

  16. Die Lüneburger Landwehr als Element der Kulturlandschaft

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    20.10.2005

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  17. Ein vertiefter Blick auf den Salzstock Gorleben

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    12.10.2005

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  18. E-learning in Creative Planning Processes - Relational Methods of Designing on Differentiated Types of Model

    Kirschner, U. (Speaker)

    22.09.2005

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  19. Die Lüneburger Landwehr als Element der Kulturlandschaft

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    05.05.2005

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  20. Sternechaos – Der Sinn von Klassifizierungen in der Hotellerie

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    18.04.2005

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  21. Tagung Erfolgskontrolle im Standort- und Regionalmarketing

    Wöhler, K. (Speaker)

    08.04.2005

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  22. Die Lüneburger Heide goes digital

    Pries, M. (Speaker)

    04.03.2005

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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