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. 2017
  2. Published

    Reisezeitexperimente als Forschungs- und Evaluierungsinstrument: Ergebnisse aus Feldstudien in Lüneburg, Hamburg und Göttingen

    Pez, P., 28.04.2017, Verkehr und Mobilität zwischen Alltagspraxis und Planungstheorie: Ökologische und soziale Perspektiven. Wilde (Herausgeber), M., Gather (Series Editor), M., Neiberger (Series Editor), C. & Scheiner (Series Editor), J. (eds.). Wiesbaden: Springer VS, p. 99-112 14 p. (Studien zur Mobilitäts- und Verkehrsforschung).

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

  3. Published

    A Hermeneutic Interpretation of Concepts in a Cooperative Multicultural Working Project

    Kirschner, U., 01.11.2017, SIGraDi 2017: XXI Congreso de la Sociedad Ibero-americana de Gráfica Digital. Ibaceta, M. R. (ed.). Blucher, p. 610-615 6 p. (Blucher Design Proceedings; vol. 3, no. 12).

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

  4. 2018
  5. Published

    Interkulturelle versus transkulturelle Räume des Kulturtourismus

    Saretzki, A. & May, C., 2018, Kulturelle Übersetzer: Kunst und Kulturmanagement im transkulturellen Kontext. Dätsch, C. (ed.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 383-400 18 p. (Edition Kulturwissenschaft; vol. 103).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Mapping Urban Information as an Interdisciplinary Method for Geography, Art and Architecture Representations

    Kirschner, U. & Sperling, D., 2018, Computing for a better tomorrow: Proceedings of the 36th eCAADe Conference - Volume 2 . Kepczynska-Walczak, A. & Bialkowski, S. (eds.). Lodz: Lodz University, p. 215-224 10 p. (Proceedings of the International Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe; vol. 2).

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

  7. Published

    Urban Transdisciplinary Co-study in a Cooperative Multicultural Working Project

    Kirschner, U., 2018, Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering: 15th International Conference, CDVE 2018, Hangzhou, China, October 21–24, 2018, Proceedings. Luo, Y. (ed.). Cham: Springer, p. 145-152 8 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 11151 LNCS).

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

  8. Published

    Landwirtschaft in den Niederlanden zwischen Marktorientierung und Umweltbelastung

    Pez, P., 03.2018, In: Geographische Rundschau. 70, 3, p. 34-39 6 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Städtische Raumproduktion durch touristische Praktiken

    Saretzki, A., 06.2018, In: Zeitschrift für Tourismuswissenschaft. 10, 1, p. 7-27 21 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  10. 2019
  11. Published

    Der steinige weg zum fairen gold herausforderungen der zertifizierung von kleinbergbau in ostafrika

    Happ, J., 2019, In: Geographische Rundschau. 71, 5, p. 46-51 6 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  12. Published

    Einzelhandel und Stadtverkehr: Neue Entwicklungstendenzen durch Digitalisierung und Stadtgestaltung

    Pez, P. (Editor) & Neiberger, C. (Editor), 2019, Würzburg University Press. 168 p. (Geographische Handelsforschung; vol. 28)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  13. Published

    Einzelhandel und Stadtverkehr – eine Symbiose?

    Pez, P. & Neiberger, C., 2019, Einzelhandel und Stadtverkehr: Neue Entwicklungstendenzen durch Digitalisierung und Stadtgestaltung. Neiberger, C. & Pez, P. (eds.). Würzburg University Press, Vol. 28. p. 1-4 4 p. (Geographische Handelsforschung; vol. 28).

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

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