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

    Marktvergesellschaftung: Marktsoziologie als Marketingsoziologie

    Wöhler, K., 04.2005, Bräuche im Salzburger Land: Zeitgeist – Lebenskonzepte – Rituale – Trends - Alternativen. Luidold, L. & Kammerhofer-Aggermann, U. (eds.). Salzburg: Landesverband Salzburger Volkskultur, Vol. 3: In Familie und Gesellschaft. (Salzburger Beiträge zur Volkskunde; vol. 15).

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

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    Medial erzeugte Befindlichkeiten

    Wöhler, K., 02.2012, Analyse, Theorie und Geschichte der Medien: Festschrift für Werner Faulstich. Karmasin, M. & Winter, C. (eds.). München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 115-127 13 p.

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

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    Medialization of Touristic Reality: The Berlin Wall Revisited

    Saretzki, A., 28.06.2010, Tourism and Visual Culture: Vol. 2: Methods and Cases. Burns, P., Lester, J.-A. & Bibbings, L. (eds.). Wallingford: CAB International, Vol. 2. p. 13-23 11 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  4. Published

    Messen, evaluieren, regulieren: das Verkehrsaufkommen bestimmen und Beruhigungsmaßnahmen entwickeln

    Pez, P., 2010, In: Geographie heute. 31, 279, p. 8-15 8 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

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    Methoden zur Erfolgsmessung im Regionalmarketing

    Wöhler, K., 08.2005, Erfolgskontrolle im Standort- und Regionalmarketing: Nutzen für den Mittelstand?. Meyer, J.-A. & Dallmann, N. (eds.). Eul Verlag, p. 69-89 21 p. (Reihe: Kleine und mittlere Unternehmen; vol. 7).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearch

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    Mit dem Rad zur Schule, aber wo und wie? Von der Regelkunde zur Verkehrsraumanalyse

    Pez, P., 2013, In: Grundschule Sachunterricht. Nr. 58, 2. Quartal 2013, p. 19-24 6 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Mobil in Deutsch und Geographie/Erdkunde: im Schnittfeld der beiden Fächer liegen vielfältigste Wirkungsmöglichkeiten

    Pez, P., 2008, Denk(t)räume Mobilität: Praxisprojekte zum fächerübergreifenden Lernen: Bd. 3: Erdkunde und Deutsch. Schneider, M. & Clement, R. (eds.). Braunschweig: Bildungshaus Schulbuchverlage Westermann, p. 14-15 2 p.

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

  8. Published

    Mobilität

    Pez, P. (Editor) & Liefner-Thiem, M. (Editor), 2010, Seelze: Friedrich Verlag GmbH. (Geographie heute; vol. 279)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesSpecial Journal issueResearch

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  10. Published

    Nachhaltigkeitsdenken und Nachhaltigkeitsreden: Ethikdiskurs im Tourismus

    Wöhler, K. & Saretzki, A., 2004, Ferntourismus wohin?: Der globale Tourismus erobert den Horizont. Luger, K., Baumgartner, C. & Wöhler, K. (eds.). Österreichischer Studien Verlag, p. 327-342 16 p. (Tourismus: transkulturell & transdisziplinär; vol. 8).

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