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

    Eine ökonomische Analyse des Tourismus

    Wöhler, K., 1998, Auf dem Weg zu einer Theorie des Tourismus. Burmeister, H.-P. (ed.). Rehburg-Loccum: Evangelische Akademie Loccum, p. 101-135 35 p. (Loccumer Protokolle; vol. 5/98).

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  2. Published

    Einblicke in die physische Geographie Niedersachsens

    Pez, P. & Pries, M., 2006, Flora und Vegetation im nordöstlichen Niedersachsen: Sonderheft aus Anlass der 56. Jahrestagung der Floristisch-soziologischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft vom 09. bis 12. Juni 2006 in Lüneburg. Härdtle, W., Horst, K. & Prüter, J. (eds.). Lüneburg: Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein für das Fürstentum Lüneburg von 1851 e.V., p. 11-21 11 p. (JAHRBUCH DES NATURWISSENSCHAFTLICHEN VEREINS FÜR DAS FÜRSTENTUM LÜNEBURG VON 1851 E.V.; vol. Sonderheft, no. 1/2006).

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  3. Published

    Dorf und Industrie verschwinden

    Böhning, S., Pries, M. & Seidensticker, R., 2002, Lohbrügge - die Geschichte eines Hamburger Stadtteils: Bd. 3: Alles wird anders. Dahms, G. (ed.). Hamburg: Kultur- & Geschichtskontor, p. 87-93 7 p.

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  4. Published

    Dispositive Konstruktion des touristischen Blicks: offline und online

    Wöhler, K., 03.2016, Websites & Sightseeing: Tourismus in Medienkulturen. Hahn, K. & Schmidl, A. (eds.). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, p. 109-148 40 p. (Medienkulturen im digitalen Zeitalter).

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  5. Published

    Digitized planning processes in the revitalization of buildings by an interdisciplinary project study empirical work with students in argentina

    Kirschner, U. & Ohler, A., 2007, Predicting the Future. Kieferle, J. & Ehlers, K. (eds.). Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe, p. 717-723 7 p. (Proceedings of the International Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe).

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  6. Published

    Digitized planning processes in the revitalization of buildings by a inderdisciplinary project study: empirical work with students from Argentina

    Kirschner, U. & Ohler, A., 2007, Predicting the future: Proceedings of the 24th Conference on Education in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe. Kieferle, J. B. & Ehlers, K. (eds.). p. 717-723 7 p.

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  7. Published

    Digital Media Facades for Lively Public Spaces: Promoting Dialogue, Participation and Social Innovation in Urban Environments

    Albrecht, A., 2015, Making Cities Liveable Conference 2015: Pullman Melbourne on the Park, Melbourne; Conference Proceedings, Peer Reviewed . Association for Sustainability in Business Inc. , p. 4-19 16 p.

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

  8. Published

    Digital Design Strategies

    Kirschner, U. & Schneider, S., 2020, Atlas of Digital Architecture: Terminology, Concepts, Methods, Tools, Examples, Phenomena. Hovestadt, L., Hirschberg, U. & Fritz, O. (eds.). Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH, p. 111-127 17 p.

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  9. Published

    Die Ziegeleien in Sande und Lohbrügge

    Pries, M., 2000, Lohbrügge: Bd. 2: Felder und Fabriken. Dahms, G. (ed.). Hamburg: Kultur- & Geschichtskontor, p. 84-93 10 p.

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  10. Published

    Die Zeit des Tourismus

    Wöhler, K., 01.2015, Tourismus und mobile Freizeit: Lebensformen, Trends, Herausforderung. Egger, R. & Luger, K. (eds.). Norderstedt: Books on Demand GmbH, p. 157-176 20 p.

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