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. Published

    15 Jahre Freie Lauenburgische Akademie: Festschrift für Dr. Werner Budesheim

    Pries, M. (Editor), 2007, Freie Lauenburgische Akademie für Wissenschaft und Kultur. 271 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  2. Published

    Abhängigkeiten und Ausnützen von Verhaltensspielräumen: Zur Entwicklung von Anreizsystemen und Kooperationsbeziehungen in Arbeitsverhältnissen im Tourismus

    Wöhler, K. & Saretzki, A., 1998, Personalmanagement im Tourismus: Konzepte und Strategien. Weiermair, K. & Wöhler, K. (eds.). Limburgerhof: FBV Medien-Verlags GmbH , p. 65-94 30 p.

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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. Published

    Aesthetic Design of Masonry Arch Bridges

    Ohler, A. & Kirschner, U., 2010, Proceedings of the Eight International Masonry Conference 2010. Jäger, W., Haseltine, B. & Fried, A. (eds.). The Masonry Society, p. 383-392 9 p. (Masonry : Proceedings of the British Masonry Society; vol. 11).

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

  6. 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

  7. Published

    Architekturästhetische Stadtwahrnehmung als eine Ästhetik der kulturellen Differenz

    Lehmann, K., 2010, Baden-Baden: Deutscher Wissenschafts-Verlag (DWV). 410 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

  8. Published

    Architektur Campus Leuphana: Online-Version des Architekturführers mit transcribierten Interviews

    Kirschner, U. & Pries, M., 2016, Lüneburg: Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, 186 p.

    Research output: Working paperProject reportsResearch

  9. Published

    Atlas mit CD-ROM

    Landwehr, B. & Pries, M., 2008, 1. ed. Stuttgart: Ernst Klett. 52 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

  10. Published

    Auch Langsamkeit findet Stadt: Tourismus und Touristen in Städten

    Wöhler, K., 2011, Slow Tourism: Reisen zwischen Langsamkeit und Sinnlichkeit. Antz, C., Eisenstein, B. & Eilzer, C. (eds.). 1. ed. München: Meidenbauer Verlagsbuchhandlung, p. 175-200 26 p. (Schriftenreihe des IMT; vol. 6).

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

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