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

    Stadtentwicklung als Zukunftsaufgabe: das Beispiel Lüneburg

    Pez, P., 2010, In: Neues Archiv für Niedersachsen. 2, p. 2-19 18 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  2. 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

  3. Published

    Partizipation bitte: eine Bürgerversammlung zu Verkehrsberuhigungsmaßnahmen simulieren

    Pez, P., 2010, In: Geographie heute. 31, 279, p. 16-17 2 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  4. Published
  5. 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

  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

    Active Citizenship in the Planning Process: Information Management vs. Creative Participation

    Kirschner, U., 2011, Cooperative design, visualization, and engineering: 8th international conference ; proceedings. Luo, Y. (ed.). Springer, p. 94-101 8 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 6874 LNCS).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Tourismuswissenschaft

    Wöhler, K., 2011, Lexikon der Geisteswissenschaften: Sachbegriffe – Disziplinen – Personen. Reinalter, H. & Brenner, P. J. (eds.). Wien/Köln/Weimar: Böhlau Verlag GmbH, p. 1088-1094 7 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticles for encyclopediaResearch

  9. Published

    Dienstleistungsgesellschaft

    Wöhler, K., 11.2011, Lexikon der Geisteswissenschaften: Sachbegriffe – Disziplinen – Personen. Reinalter, H. & Brenner, P. J. (eds.). 1. ed. Wien/Köln/Weimar: Böhlau Verlag GmbH, p. 279-284 6 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticles for encyclopediaResearch

  10. Published

    Freizeit

    Wöhler, K., 11.2011, Lexikon der Geisteswissenschaften: Sachbegriffe – Disziplinen – Personen. Reinalter, H. & Brenner, P. J. (eds.). 1. ed. Wien/Köln/Weimar: Böhlau Verlag GmbH, p. 220-225 6 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticles for encyclopediaResearch