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
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Touristische Verortungen: Reisen im Tourismusmodus: zur Persistenz der Romantik im Reise-Ich
Wöhler, K., 29.01.2016, Kulturstraßen als Konzept: 20 Jahre Straße der Romanik. Ranft, A. & Schenkluhn, W. (eds.). Verlag Schnell und Steiner, p. 115-127 13 p. (more romano – Schriften des Europäischen Romanik Zentrums; vol. 5).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research
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Touristsein als temporäres Sein in alltagsabgewandten Räumen
Wöhler, K., 2010, Auf den Spuren der Touristen: Perspektiven auf ein bedeutsames Handlungsfeld. Lauterbach, B. (ed.). Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, p. 175-198 24 p. (Kulturtransfer. Alltagskulturelle Beiträge; vol. 6).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Transformation des Einzelhandels in osteuropäischen Städten: am Beispiel von St. Petersburg und Ishevsk (Russland)
Pez, P., 2006, Kulturgeographie der Stadt. Gans, P., Priebs, A. & Wehrhahn, R. (eds.). Kiel: Geographisches Institut, p. 283-295 13 p. (Kieler geographische Schriften; vol. 111).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Trends Towards Pure Leisure: Leisure as Ritual Performance
Wöhler, K., 2006, Time Shift, Leisure and Tourism: Impacts of Time Allocation on Successful Products and Services. Weiermair, K., Pechlaner, H. & Bieger, T. (eds.). Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, p. 187-193 7 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Umweltverträglicher Tourismus: Grundlagen - Konzeption - Marketing
Wöhler, K. & Saretzki, A., 1999, Limburgerhof: FBV Medien-Verlags GmbH . 168 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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Unterhaltung ist Leben erhalten: Freizeit als kulturelle Unterhaltungspraxis
Wöhler, K., 2006, Unterhaltungskultur. Faulstich, W. & Knop, K. (eds.). München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 33-52 20 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Unterwegssein und die Fraglichkeit des Bleibens
Wöhler, K., 12.2014, In: Powision. 8, 16, p. 48-50 3 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Urban Transdisciplinary Co-study in a Cooperative Multicultural Working Project
Kirschner, U., 2018, Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering: 15th International Conference, CDVE 2018, Hangzhou, China, October 21–24, 2018, Proceedings. Luo, Y. (ed.). Cham: Springer, p. 145-152 8 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 11151 LNCS).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Veralltäglichung des Tourismus
Wöhler, K., 2007, Tourismus:Herausforderung:Zukunft. Egger, R. & Herdin, T. (eds.). Wien/Berlin: LIT Verlag, p. 45-56 12 p. (Wissenschaftliche Schriftenreihe des Zentrums für Tourismusforschung – Salzburg; vol. 1).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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Vereint in Freizeit und Reisen
Wöhler, K., 2010, Die Kultur der 90er Jahre. Faulstich, W. (ed.). München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 63-75 13 p. (Kulturgeschichte des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts; vol. 9).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research