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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Stadtentwicklung als Zukunftsaufgabe: das Beispiel Lüneburg
Pez, P., 2010, In: Neues Archiv für Niedersachsen. 2, p. 2-19 18 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Partizipation bitte: eine Bürgerversammlung zu Verkehrsberuhigungsmaßnahmen simulieren
Pez, P., 2010, In: Geographie heute. 31, 279, p. 16-17 2 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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Mobilität und Nachhaltigkeit: von der autoorientierten zur integrativen Verkehrspolitik ; vom Verkehrsunterricht zum Curriculum Mobilität
Pez, P., 2010, In: Geographie heute. 31, 279, p. 2-7 6 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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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 contributions › Journal articles › Research
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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/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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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/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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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/works › Articles for encyclopedia › Research
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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/works › Articles for encyclopedia › Research
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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/works › Articles for encyclopedia › Research