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

    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/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearch

  2. Published

    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/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  3. Published

    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/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  4. Published

    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/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  5. Published

    Umweltverträglicher Tourismus: Grundlagen - Konzeption - Marketing

    Wöhler, K. & Saretzki, A., 1999, Limburgerhof: FBV Medien-Verlags GmbH . 168 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  6. Published

    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/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  7. Published

    Unterwegssein und die Fraglichkeit des Bleibens

    Wöhler, K., 12.2014, In: Powision. 8, 16, p. 48-50 3 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  8. Published

    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/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    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/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  10. Published

    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/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch