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

    World Heritage Tourism and Cultural Dialogue: The World Heritage Site of Ambohimanga (Madagascar) as a Transdifferential Space

    Saretzki, A. & May, C., 01.2013, Tourism in the Global South: Heritages, Identities and Development. Sarmento, J. & Brito-Henriques, E. (eds.). Centro de Estudos Geográficos, Universidade de Lisboa, p. 45-64 20 p.

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

  2. 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

  3. Published

    Perception of Space and Time in a Created Environment

    Kirschner, U., 2014, Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering: 11th International Conference, CDVE 2014, Seattle, WA, USA, September 14-17, 2014, Proceedings. Luo, Y. (ed.). Springer, Vol. 8683. p. 183-190 8 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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

  4. Published

    Ottensen - ein Hamburger Stadtteil als städtische Kreativwerkstatt

    Pries, M., 2014, Die Anpassungsfähigkeit von Städten: Zwischen Resilienz, Krisenreaktion und Zukunftsorientierung. Altrock, U., Huning, S., Kuder, T. & Nuissl, H. (eds.). Berlin: Altrock, p. 271-284 14 p. (Planungsrundschau; no. 22).

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    Conrad Wilhelm Hase und seine Bedeutung für das Bauen im ländlichen Raum

    Pries, M., 2014, Die Backsteinstadt Lüneburg: Ursprünge − Entwicklungslinien − Technikgeschichte . Pries, M. & Seidel, A. (eds.). Norderstedt: Books on Demand GmbH, p. 95-108 14 p. (Lüneburger Geographische Schriften; vol. 2).

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  6. Published

    Die Lüneburger Ziegelproduzenten der Neuzeit und ihre Bedeutung für das Stadtbild

    Seidel, A., 2014, Die Backsteinstadt Lüneburg: Ursprünge − Entwicklungslinien − Technikgeschichte . Pries, M. & Seidel, A. (eds.). Norderstedt: Books on Demand GmbH, p. 109-126 18 p. (Lüneburger Geographische Schriften; vol. 2).

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    Die Backsteinstadt Lüneburg im Wandel der Baustile - eine Einleitung

    Seidel, A., 2014, Die Backsteinstadt Lüneburg: Ursprünge − Entwicklungslinien − Technikgeschichte. Pries, M. & Seidel, A. (eds.). Norderstedt: Books on Demand GmbH, p. 7-12 6 p. (Lüneburger Geographische Schriften; vol. 2).

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  8. Published

    Vorwort

    Pries, M. & Seidel, A., 2014, Die Backsteinstadt Lüneburg: Ursprünge- Entwicklungslinien - Technikgeschichte. Pries, M. & Seidel, A. (eds.). Norderstedt: Books on Demand GmbH, p. 6 1 p. (Lüneburger Geographische Schriften; vol. 2).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksOtherResearch

  9. Published

    The Bologna Reform: Experiences with the transition to Bachelor's and Master's Programs in Germany and at the Leuphana University

    Pez, P. & Reuther, H., 2013, Didaktik Aspekte interkultureller Kommunikation in der Bildung: Theorie und Praxis. Udmurtskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ universitet, Vol. 1. p. 48-58 11 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearch

  10. Published