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

    Medialization of Touristic Reality: The Berlin Wall Revisited

    Saretzki, A., 28.06.2010, Tourism and Visual Culture: Vol. 2: Methods and Cases. Burns, P., Lester, J.-A. & Bibbings, L. (eds.). Wallingford: CAB International, Vol. 2. p. 13-23 11 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  2. Published

    Destination Building und Destination Branding als räumliche Konstruktionsprozesse

    Saretzki, A., 2010, Tourismusräume: Zur soziokulturellen Konstruktion eines globalen Phänomens. Wöhler, K., Pott, A. & Denzer, V. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 271-294 24 p. (Kultur- und Medientheorie).

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

  3. Published

    Produire un espace sacré: controverses autour du site de la colline royale d'Ambohimanga à Madagascar

    Saretzki, A. & May, C., 07.2011, In: Mondes du tourisme : revue pluridisciplinaire de recherche. 2, 3, p. 26-40 15 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Sustainabilisierung des Tourismus: Zur Logik einer postmodernen Wachstumsstrategie

    Wöhler, K., 1999, Grenzenlose Gesellschaft – grenzenloser Tourismus?. Bachleitner, R. & Schimany, P. (eds.). München/Wien: Profil Verlag, p. 38-54 17 p. (Tourismuswissenschaftliche Manuskripte; vol. 5).

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

  5. Published

    Produktion kulturtouristischer Angebote

    Wöhler, K., 1997, KulturTourismus Management: Strukturen und theoretische Konzepte zum KulturTourismus. Heinze, T. (ed.). Hagen: FernUniversität in Hagen, p. 105-135 31 p. (Reader zum Weiterbildungsstudiengang "KulturTourismus Management").

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksOtherEducation

  6. Published

    Imagekonstruktion fremder Räume: Entstehung und Funktion von Bildern über Reiseziele

    Wöhler, K., 1998, In: Voyage. Jahrbuch für Reise- und Tourismusforschung. 2, p. 97-114 18 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  7. Published

    Naturerlebnisgebiete – Rettung der Naturerfahrung? Eine kulturwissenschaftliche Ableitung

    Wöhler, K., 1998, Naturerfahrungsräume: Ein humanökologischer Ansatz für naturnahe Erholung in Stadt und Land. Bonn/Bad Godesberg: Bundesamt für Naturschutz, p. 31-46 16 p. (Angewandte Landschaftsökologie; vol. 19).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to scientific reportsResearch

  8. Published
  9. Published

    Wettbewerbssituation und Handlungsspielräume kleiner und mittlerer Tourismusunternehmen

    Wöhler, K., 1999, In: Tourismus-Journal. 3, 2, p. 205-229 25 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  10. Published

    Auf dem (schwierigen) Weg zu einer Tourismuswissenschaft

    Wöhler, K., 1997, In: Tourismus-Journal. 1, 1, p. 4-10 7 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

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  1. Effectiveness of an internet-based intervention to improve sleep difficulties in a culturally diverse sample of international students
  2. Deepening or losing trust: towards partnerships between refugee parents and educators in early childhood education and care in Germany
  3. Integrating sense of place in planning and management of multifunctional river landscapes: experiences from five European case studies
  4. Geochemical Assessment of Sediment Quality Using Multivariate Statistical Analysis of Ennore Creek, North of Chennai, SE Coast of India.
  5. Law and authority in British legal history, 1200–1900, edited by Mark Godfrey,Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2016, ISBN 978-1-107-12227-7
  6. Analysis of nutrition-relevant trace elements in human blood and serum by means of total reflection X-ray fluorescence (TXRF) spectroscopy
  7. Gelingens- und Misslingensfaktoren bei Projekten zur systematischen Förderung der Lehrergesundheit: Erfahrungen aus einem Modellprojekt
  8. „See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, Heal Me“: Definitionen, Verhältnisbeschreibungen und Anwendungsempfehlungen zwischen Musik, Gefühlen und Pädagogik.
  9. Deal or no deal? How round vs precise percentage offers and price-ending mimicry affect impasse risk in over 25 million eBay negotiations
  10. The distribution of self-reported psychotic-like experiences in non-psychotic help-seeking mental health patients in the general population
  11. Investitionen junger Unternehmen - Eine theoretische und empirische Untersuchung der Investitionsmuster deutscher Unternehmensgründungen
  12. Summer temperatures from the Middle Pleistocene site Schöningen 13 II, northern Germany, determined from subfossil chironomid assemblages
  13. Risk or Resilience? The Role of Trade Integration and Foreign Ownership for the Survival of German Enterprises during the Crisis 2008-2010
  14. Fatty acid feedstock preparation and lactic acid production as integrated processes in mixed restaurant food and bakery wastes treatment