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

    Martin Pries (Speaker)

    21.04.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  3. Hamburg and its Waterfront. Who reclaims the Egde?

    Martin Pries (Lecturer)

    19.03.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  4. The European City since the Second World War

    Martin Pries (Lecturer)

    18.03.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  5. Cities in the Industrial Revolution

    Martin Pries (Lecturer)

    17.03.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  6. Early Urbanisation in Europe

    Martin Pries (Lecturer)

    16.03.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  7. 9. Arbeitstagung der Kommission Tourismusforschung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Volkskunde - 2010

    Karlheinz Wöhler (Speaker)

    05.03.2010

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  8. Einkaufszentrum gegen Innenstadt?

    Martin Pries (Speaker)

    04.02.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  9. 2009
  10. Weihnachts-Shopping - Ja! Aber wo? Einkaufzentrum gegen Innenstadt

    Martin Pries (Lecturer)

    15.12.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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

    Martin Pries (Speaker)

    25.11.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  12. Das Gedächtnis eines Ortes. Das Kommunizieren, Speichern und Vergessen von Kulturerbe in Elx

    Anja Saretzki (Speaker)

    20.11.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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