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

    Making Sociological Theories Come Alive: Cooperative Work on Collective Memories Regarding Frontier Zones

    Kirschner, U., 2020, Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering - 17th International Conference, CDVE 2020, Proceedings: 17th International Conference, CDVE 2020 Bangkok, Thailand, Oktober 25-28, 2020, Proceedings. Luo, Y. (ed.). Cham: Springer, p. 148-157 10 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 12341 LNCS).

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

  2. Published

    Lüneburg - Stadt auf dem Salz

    Pries, M., 2002, In: Geographische Rundschau. 54, 3, p. 4-11 8 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  3. Published

    Lüneburg - Stadt auf dem Salz

    Pries, M., 2006, "Buten un binnen - wagen un winnen": Geographie erleben in Bremen und umzu ; Exkursionsführer zum 30. Schulgeographentag in Bremen 2006. Pries, M. (ed.). Bremen: Universität Bremen, p. 113-117 5 p. (Bremer Beiträge zur Geographie und Raumplanung; vol. 43).

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

  4. Published

    Lüneburg atmet auf - Stadtverkehr auf neuen Wegen

    Pez, P., 2001, Stadtentwicklung und Architektur - Lüneburg im 20. Jahrhundert: im Rahmen der Ausstellung Stadtentwicklung und Architektur - Lüneburg im 20. Jahrhundert, 10. Juni - 9. September, Lüneburger Wasserturm. Preuß, W. H. (ed.). Husum: Trägerverein Hundert Jahre Stadtentwicklung und Architektur in Lüneburg, p. 161-164 4 p.

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

  5. Published

    Literary Trails, Urban Space and the Actualization of Heritage

    Saretzki, A., 01.2014, In: Almatourism – Journal of Tourism, Culture and Territorial Development. 4, 8, p. 61-77 17 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Literary Trails: A Chance for Heritage or just the Disneyfication of Cityscapes ?

    Saretzki, A., 02.2013, Tourism, Roads and Cultural Itineraries: Meaning, Memory and Development. Bourdeau, L., Marcotte, P. & Saidi, M. H. (eds.). Presses de l'Université Laval, Vol. 2. p. 276-286 11 p.

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

  7. Published

    Lernende Tourismusregionen: Vernetzung als strategischer Erfolgsfaktor kleiner und mittlerer Unternehmen

    Saretzki, A., Wilken, M. & Wöhler, K., 2002, Münster/Hamburg/London: LIT Verlag. 178 p. (Tourismus. Beiträge zu Wissenschaft und Praxis; vol. 3)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

  8. Published

    Landwirtschaft in den Niederlanden zwischen Marktorientierung und Umweltbelastung

    Pez, P., 03.2018, In: Geographische Rundschau. 70, 3, p. 34-39 6 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Landschaftserleben

    Wöhler, K., 2008, Lexikon Tourismus: Destinationen, Gastronomie, Hotellerie, Reisemittler, Reiseveranstalter, Verkehrsträger. Fuchs, W., Mundt, J. W. & Zollondz, H.-D. (eds.). München: Oldenbourg Schulbuchverl, p. 431 1 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticles for encyclopediaResearch

  10. Published

    Landschaften im Wandel

    Pries, M. (Editor), 2008, Seelze: Friedrich Verlag GmbH. 48 p. (Geographie heute; no. 257/2008)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesSpecial Journal issueResearch