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
- 2017
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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/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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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/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
- 2018
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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/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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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/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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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/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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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 contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Städtische Raumproduktion durch touristische Praktiken
Saretzki, A., 06.2018, In: Zeitschrift für Tourismuswissenschaft. 10, 1, p. 7-27 21 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- 2019
- 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 contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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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 anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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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/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research