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. 2010
  2. Published

    Touristsein als temporäres Sein in alltagsabgewandten Räumen

    Wöhler, K., 2010, Auf den Spuren der Touristen: Perspektiven auf ein bedeutsames Handlungsfeld. Lauterbach, B. (ed.). Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, p. 175-198 24 p. (Kulturtransfer. Alltagskulturelle Beiträge; vol. 6).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  3. Published

    Vereint in Freizeit und Reisen

    Wöhler, K., 2010, Die Kultur der 90er Jahre. Faulstich, W. (ed.). München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 63-75 13 p. (Kulturgeschichte des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts; vol. 9).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  4. Published

    Welterbetourismus zwischen lokalem Erbe und globaler Vermarktung

    May, C. & Saretzki, A., 2010, Tourismus im Spannungsfeld von Polaritäten. Egger, R. & Herdin, T. (eds.). LIT Verlag, p. 25-37 13 p. (Wissenschaftliche Schriftenreihe der FHS-Forschungsgesellschaft; vol. 2).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  5. Published

    Welt- und Selbsterschließung im Modus des Reisens

    Wöhler, K., 2010, Tourismus im Spannungsfeld von Polaritäten. Egger, R. & Herdin, T. (eds.). Wien/Berlin: LIT Verlag, p. 237-248 12 p. (Wissenschaftliche Schriftenreihe der FHS-Forschungsgesellschaft; vol. 2).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  6. Published

    "Wir wissen nicht, was wir tun sollen" - Expertisierte Raumaneignung und -konstruktion

    Wöhler, K., 2010, Tourismusräume: Zur soziokulturellen Konstruktion eines globalen Phänomens. Wöhler, K., Pott, A. & Denzer, V. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 157-188 32 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  7. Published

    Woanders Zuhause

    Wöhler, K., 2010, Tourismus im Spannungsfeld von Polaritäten. Egger, R. & Herdin, T. (eds.). Wien/Berlin: LIT Verlag, p. 249-258 10 p. (Wissenschaftliche Schriftenreihe der FHS-Forschungsgesellschaft; vol. 2).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  8. Published

    Tourismusräume: Virtualisierung des Realen - Realisierung des Virtuellen

    Wöhler, K., 05.03.2010, Topologien des Reisens: Tourismus - Imagination - Migration. Karentzos, A., Kittner, A.-E. & Reuter, J. (eds.). Trier: Universitätsbibliothek Trier, p. 150-163 14 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  9. Published

    Medialization of Touristic Reality: The Berlin Wall Revisited

    Saretzki, A., 28.06.2010, Tourism and Visual Culture: Vol. 2: Methods and Cases. Burns, P., Lester, J.-A. & Bibbings, L. (eds.). Wallingford: CAB International, Vol. 2. p. 13-23 11 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  10. 2011
  11. Published

    Active Citizenship in the Planning Process: Information Management vs. Creative Participation

    Kirschner, U., 2011, Cooperative design, visualization, and engineering: 8th international conference ; proceedings. Luo, Y. (ed.). Springer, p. 94-101 8 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 6874 LNCS).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  12. Published

    Active Cityship in the planning process for the future plan "More Altona"

    Kirschner, U., 2011, In: V!rus. 5, 15 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review