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

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  1. Bargfost Symposium, Campinas Brasilien

    Kirschner, U. (Project manager, academic)

    14.03.1616.03.16

    Project: Research

  2. College-Studien in der Praxis- Nachhaltiges Nutzungskonzept für das Heimathaus

    Hellmann, K. (Project manager, academic) & Kirschner, U. (Project staff)

    01.04.1130.09.11

    Project: Practical Project

  3. College-Studien in der Praxis- Wie lassen sich Versorgungslücken im ländlichen Raum schließen?

    Hellmann, K. (Project manager, academic) & Pez, P. (Project manager, academic)

    01.10.1331.03.14

    Project: Practical Project

  4. College Studien in der Praxis- Wirtschaftsförderung der Samtgemeinde Horneburg & GD Incentives GmbH

    Hellmann, K. (Project manager, academic) & Pries, M. (Project staff)

    01.04.1230.09.12

    Project: Practical Project

  5. Die wirtschaftlich-kulturelle Bedeutung des Rohstoffs Ton für die Backsteinstadt Lüneburg

    Pries, M. (Project manager, academic), Herdeg, U. (Partner) & Seidel, A. (Project staff)

    Volkswagen Foundation

    01.01.1026.01.16

    Project: Research

  6. Einzelhandelsstrukturen in Soltau und seinem Umfeld

    Pez, P. (Project manager, academic)

    14.11.0731.08.09

    Project: Transfer (R&D project)

  7. Errichtung eines Simulationslabors im Teilrechenzentrum Buxtehude

    Kirschner, U. (Project manager, academic)

    02.09.02 → …

    Project: Research

  8. Exkursionsförderung - Brasilienexkursion

    Kirschner, U. (Project manager, academic)

    13.03.06 → …

    Project: Research

  9. Frontier Zones

    Kirschner, U. (Project manager, academic)

    27.05.1515.12.17

    Project: Other

  10. Gastwissenschaftler/innen Aufenthalt

    Kirschner, U. (Project manager, academic)

    05.03.0730.08.07

    Project: Individual grant

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