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

    Didactical design methods applied in design studios for Architectural and Cultural Sciences in Brazil: Experiment Digital Space: composition with elements design by Mies van der Rohe and the importance of their Web presentation

    Kirschner, U. & Pratschke, A., 2009, ECAADe 2009: computation: the new realm of architectural design ; proceedings of the 27th Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Design in Europe ; September 16 - 19, 2009, Istanbul, Turkey. Çagdas, G. & Çolakoglu, B. (eds.). Istanbul Technical University, p. 787-792 6 p. (Proceedings of the International Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe).

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

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    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

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    Destinationaler Wandel: eine systemtheoretische Annäherung

    Wöhler, K., 2008, Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Tourismuswirtschaft 2008. Bieger, T., Laesser, C. & Maggi, R. (eds.). St. Gallen: Institut für Tourismus und Verkehrswirtschaft an der Universität St. Gallen, p. 209-223 15 p. (Jahrbuch der schweizerischen Tourismuswirtschaft).

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

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    Destinationale Governance-Analyse

    Wöhler, K., 27.09.2013, Governance von Destinationen: Neue Ansätze für die erfolgreiche Steuerung touristischer Zielgebiete. Saretzki, A. & Wöhler, K. (eds.). Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag, p. 103-138 36 p.

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

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    Der steinige weg zum fairen gold herausforderungen der zertifizierung von kleinbergbau in ostafrika

    Happ, J., 2019, In: Geographische Rundschau. 71, 5, p. 46-51 6 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

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    Der Landschaftsbegriff in der Geographie

    Pries, M., 2008, In: Geographie heute. 29, 257, p. 2-6 5 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

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    Der Kunde als Innovationsquelle

    Wöhler, K., 2005, Erfolg durch Innovation: Perspektiven für den Tourismus- und Dienstleistungssektor. Pechlaner, H., Tschurtschenthaler, P., Peters, M., Pikkemaat, B. & Fuchs, M. (eds.). Wiesbaden: Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag, p. 243-259 17 p.

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

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    Der digitale Raum als Vermittler zwischen Vision und Realität

    Kirschner, U., 2011, Augmented Reality: Mensch, Raum und Virtualität. Hemmerling, M. (ed.). München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, p. 25-41 17 p. (PerceptionLab; vol. 1).

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

  10. Published

    Den Wegen auf der Spur - in der Autostadt: Parkstraße zeigt Straßenbautechniken von der Antike bis zur Neuzeit

    Pez, P. & Völkening, C., 2007, Denk(t)räume Mobilität; : Bd. 2: Physik und Erdkunde. Braunschweig: Bildungshaus Schulbuchverlage Westermann, p. 68-73 6 p.

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