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

    Klima - Verkehr(t)? geographische und mediale Überlegungen zu einem nicht nur schulaktuellen Thema

    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. 16-21 6 p.

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

  2. Published

    Der Kunde als Innovationsquelle

    Wöhler, K., 2005, Erfolg durch Innovation: Perspektiven für den Tourismus- und Dienstleistungssektor. Pechlaner, H., Tschurtschenthaler, P., Peters, M., Pikkemaat, B. & Fuchs, M. (eds.). Wiesbaden: Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag, p. 243-259 17 p.

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

  3. Published

    Ortsumfahrungen Patent- oder Scheinlösung? Entwicklung eines neuen Beurteilungsansatzes

    Pez, P., 2005, In: Raumplanung. 119, p. 87-92 6 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  4. Published

    Verkehrswachstum und Modal Split

    Pez, P., 2005, Handbuch Nachhaltigkeitskommunikation: Grundlagen und Praxis. Michelsen, G. & Godemann, J. (eds.). München: oekom verlag GmbH, p. 494-502 9 p.

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

  5. Published

    Wellness as a Hybrid Phenomenon

    Saretzki, A., Sonnenberg, G. & 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. 221-231 11 p.

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

  6. 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

  7. Published

    Kulturlandschaft – Neu entdeckt für den Geographieunterricht

    Pries, M., 2009, Kulturlandschaften in Geographie und Raumplanung: Eine Handreichung - nicht nur - für den Geographie-Unterricht. A. F. R. U. L. & V. D. S. E. V. (eds.). Bretten: Eigenverlag des Verbandes Deutscher Schulgeographen, p. 5 - 6 2 p. (Schriftenreihe des Verbandes Deutscher Schulgeographen e.V.; vol. 9).

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

  8. Published

    "Großdeutscher" Kulturraum: Verrräumlichung volksdeutschen Denkens

    Wöhler, K., 2009, Die Kultur der 30er und 40er Jahre. Faulstich, W. (ed.). München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 27-42 16 p. (Kulturgeschichte des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts).

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

  9. Published

    Architekturästhetische Stadtwahrnehmung als eine Ästhetik der kulturellen Differenz

    Lehmann, K., 2010, Baden-Baden: Deutscher Wissenschafts-Verlag (DWV). 410 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

  10. Published

    Das Alte Werk Melbeck/Embsen: 55 Jahre Industriegeschichte im Süden Lüneburgs

    Arendt, S. & Seidel, A., 2010, Melbeck: Samtgemeinde Ilmenau. 156 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsTransfer

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