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
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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/works › Chapter › peer-review
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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 contributions › Journal articles › Research
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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/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research
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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 contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Auf dem (schwierigen) Weg zu einer Tourismuswissenschaft
Wöhler, K., 1997, In: Tourismus-Journal. 1, 1, p. 4-10 7 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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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/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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Atlas mit CD-ROM
Landwehr, B. & Pries, M., 2008, 1. ed. Stuttgart: Ernst Klett. 52 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research
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Architektur Campus Leuphana: Online-Version des Architekturführers mit transcribierten Interviews
Kirschner, U. & Pries, M., 2016, Lüneburg: Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, 186 p.Research output: Working paper › Project reports › Research
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Architekturästhetische Stadtwahrnehmung als eine Ästhetik der kulturellen Differenz
Lehmann, K., 2010, Baden-Baden: Deutscher Wissenschafts-Verlag (DWV). 410 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research
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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/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review