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

    Between political protest and tourism gentrification: Impacts of New Urban Tourism in Hamburg's Schanzenviertel

    Saretzki, A. & Wöhler, K., 22.07.2021, The Power of New Urban Tourism: Spaces, Representations and Contestations. Ba, C., Frank, S., Müller, C., Raschke, A. L., Wellner, K. & Zecher, A. (eds.). London: Taylor and Francis Inc., p. 131-146 16 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  2. Published

    Auf in den Ferienpark! eine Freizeitlandschaft unter der Lupe (Beispiel Schloss Dankern, England)

    Pez, P., 2008, In: Geographie heute. 29, 257, p. 42-45 4 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  3. Published

    Aufhebung von Raum und Zeit: Realitätsverlust, Wirklichkeitskonstruktion und Inkorporation von Reisebildern

    Wöhler, K., 2001, Reisebilder: Produktion und Reproduktion touristischer Wahrnehmung. Köck, C. (ed.). Waxmann Verlag, p. 79-88 10 p. (Münchner Universitätsschriften: Münchner Beiträge zur Volkskunde; vol. 29).

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

  4. Published

    Auf dem Weg zur neuen globalen Kompetenzaufteilung? Zur Internationalisierung von Entwicklung und Konstruktion in der deutschen Automobilzulieferung

    Fuchs, M., 01.01.2003, In: Erdkunde. 57, 1, p. 55-66 12 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  5. 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

  6. Published

    Auch Langsamkeit findet Stadt: Tourismus und Touristen in Städten

    Wöhler, K., 2011, Slow Tourism: Reisen zwischen Langsamkeit und Sinnlichkeit. Antz, C., Eisenstein, B. & Eilzer, C. (eds.). 1. ed. München: Meidenbauer Verlagsbuchhandlung, p. 175-200 26 p. (Schriftenreihe des IMT; vol. 6).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Atlas mit CD-ROM

    Landwehr, B. & Pries, M., 2008, 1. ed. Stuttgart: Ernst Klett. 52 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

  8. Published

    Architektur Campus Leuphana: Online-Version des Architekturführers mit transcribierten Interviews

    Kirschner, U. & Pries, M., 2016, Lüneburg: Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, 186 p.

    Research output: Working paperProject reportsResearch

  9. Published

    Architekturästhetische Stadtwahrnehmung als eine Ästhetik der kulturellen Differenz

    Lehmann, K., 2010, Baden-Baden: Deutscher Wissenschafts-Verlag (DWV). 410 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

  10. Published

    A Hermeneutic Interpretation of Concepts in a Cooperative Multicultural Working Project

    Kirschner, U., 01.11.2017, SIGraDi 2017: XXI Congreso de la Sociedad Ibero-americana de Gráfica Digital. Ibaceta, M. R. (ed.). Blucher, p. 610-615 6 p. (Blucher Design Proceedings; vol. 3, no. 12).

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