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
- 2010
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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/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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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/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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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/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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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/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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"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/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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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/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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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/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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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/works › Chapter › peer-review
- 2011
- 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/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Active Cityship in the planning process for the future plan "More Altona"
Kirschner, U., 2011, In: V!rus. 5, 15 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review