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
- Published
Literary Trails, Urban Space and the Actualization of Heritage
Saretzki, A., 01.2014, In: Almatourism – Journal of Tourism, Culture and Territorial Development. 4, 8, p. 61-77 17 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- Published
Lüneburg atmet auf - Stadtverkehr auf neuen Wegen
Pez, P., 2001, Stadtentwicklung und Architektur - Lüneburg im 20. Jahrhundert: im Rahmen der Ausstellung Stadtentwicklung und Architektur - Lüneburg im 20. Jahrhundert, 10. Juni - 9. September, Lüneburger Wasserturm. Preuß, W. H. (ed.). Husum: Trägerverein Hundert Jahre Stadtentwicklung und Architektur in Lüneburg, p. 161-164 4 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research
- Published
Lüneburg - Stadt auf dem Salz
Pries, M., 2002, In: Geographische Rundschau. 54, 3, p. 4-11 8 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
- Published
Lüneburg - Stadt auf dem Salz
Pries, M., 2006, "Buten un binnen - wagen un winnen": Geographie erleben in Bremen und umzu ; Exkursionsführer zum 30. Schulgeographentag in Bremen 2006. Pries, M. (ed.). Bremen: Universität Bremen, p. 113-117 5 p. (Bremer Beiträge zur Geographie und Raumplanung; vol. 43).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research
- Published
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
- Published
Manchester - Eine Stadt erfindet sich neu
Pries, M., 2011, Festschrift 20 Jahre Freie Lauenburgische Akademie für Wissenschaft und Kultur. Budesheim, W. (ed.). Wentorf bei Hamburg: Freie Lauenburgische Akademie für Wissenschaft und Kultur, p. 178 - 199 22 p. (Beiträge für Wissenschaft und Kultur; vol. 10).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
- Published
Manpower: The Neglected Resource in Tourism Management
Wöhler, K., 2008, Change Management in Tourism: From 'Old' to 'New' Tourism. Kronenberg, C., Müller, S., Peters, M., Pikkemaat, B. & Weiermair, K. (eds.). Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, p. 205-220 16 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
- 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/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
- Published
Marketing in der heutigen Gesellschaft
Wöhler, K.-H., 2002, Lüneburg: Universität Lüneburg, 18 p.Research output: Working paper › Working papers
- Published
Marktorientiertes Tourismusmanagement 1: Tourismusorte: Leitbild, Nachfrage- und Konkurrenzanalyse
Wöhler, K., 1997, Berlin et al.: Springer. 391 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research