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
- 2020
- Published
Digital Design Strategies
Kirschner, U. & Schneider, S., 2020, Atlas of Digital Architecture: Terminology, Concepts, Methods, Tools, Examples, Phenomena. Hovestadt, L., Hirschberg, U. & Fritz, O. (eds.). Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH, p. 111-127 17 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Making Sociological Theories Come Alive: Cooperative Work on Collective Memories Regarding Frontier Zones
Kirschner, U., 2020, Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering - 17th International Conference, CDVE 2020, Proceedings: 17th International Conference, CDVE 2020 Bangkok, Thailand, Oktober 25-28, 2020, Proceedings. Luo, Y. (ed.). Cham: Springer, p. 148-157 10 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 12341 LNCS).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Radverkehrsförderung 3.0: Radverkehr, Verkehrsmittelwahl, Stadtverkehr, Verkehrsplanung; Barrierefrei, netztransparent, digital - konzeptionelle Folgerungen aus 30 Jahren Beobachtungen und Forschung (nicht nur) in der Region Lüneburg - Teil 1
Pez, P. & Seidel, A., 2020, In: Internationales Verkehrswesen. 72, 3, p. 20-23 4 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Radverkehrsförderung 3.0: Barrierefrei, netztransparent, digital - Teil 2; Radverkehr, Verkehrsmittelwahl, Stadtverkehr, Verkehrsplanung
Pez, P. & Seidel, A., 2020, In: Internationales Verkehrswesen. 72, 4, p. 16-20 5 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Verkehrsplanung
Pez, P., 2020, Geographische Handelsforschung. Neiberger, C. (ed.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Spektrum, p. 157-167 11 p. 14Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
- 2021
- Published
Between political protest and tourism gentrification: Impacts of New Urban Tourism in Hamburg's Schanzenviertel
Saretzki, A. & Wöhler, K., 22.07.2021, The Power of New Urban Tourism: Spaces, Representations and Contestations. Ba, C., Frank, S., Müller, C., Raschke, A. L., Wellner, K. & Zecher, A. (eds.). London: Taylor and Francis Inc., p. 131-146 16 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
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Collaborative Filmmaking: Extending the Modes of Working Together by a Digital Platform
Kirschner, U. & Kohler, M., 28.10.2021, Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering: 18th International Conference, CDVE 2021, Proceedings. Luo, Y. (ed.). Cham: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 160-171 12 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 12983 LNCS).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
- 2022
- Published
Verkehrswissenschaftliche Arbeiten 12: Modal-Split-Verkehrszählung im Stadtbereich Lüneburgs Juni 2021
Pez, P., 06.2022, 43 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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PDC Place Germany: Participatory Design in Cities
Hilmer, L., 19.08.2022, PDC 2022 Embracing Cosmologies: Expanding Worlds of Participatory Design - Proceedings of the 17th Participatory Design Conference: Volime 2: Exploratory Papers, Workshops, Places, Situated Actions and Doctoral Colloquium. Vlachokyriakos, V., Yee, J., Frauenberger, C., Hurtado, M. D., Hansen, N., Strohmayer, A., Van Zyl, I., Dearden, A., Talhouk, R., Gatehouse, C., Leishman, D., Agid, S., Sciannamblo, M., Taylor, J., Botero, A., Del Gaudio, C., Akama, Y., Clarke, R. & Vines, J. (eds.). New York: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, p. 267-268 2 p. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; vol. 2).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Published abstract in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
- 2023
- Published
Gentrifizierung und Touristifizierung in der Hamburger Sternschanze: Ein Stadtviertel zwischen Protest und neoliberaler Verwertungslogik
Kirschner, U. (Editor) & Saretzki, A. (Editor), 10.08.2023, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 327 p. (Urban Studies )Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research