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

    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 contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  2. 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/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearch

  3. Published

    Lüneburg - Stadt auf dem Salz

    Pries, M., 2002, In: Geographische Rundschau. 54, 3, p. 4-11 8 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  4. 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/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearch

  5. 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/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  6. 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/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  7. 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/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  8. 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

  9. Published

    Marketing in der heutigen Gesellschaft

    Wöhler, K.-H., 2002, Lüneburg: Universität Lüneburg, 18 p.

    Research output: Working paperWorking papers

  10. Published

    Marktorientiertes Tourismusmanagement 1: Tourismusorte: Leitbild, Nachfrage- und Konkurrenzanalyse

    Wöhler, K., 1997, Berlin et al.: Springer. 391 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

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