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

    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, p. 111-127 17 p.

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

  2. Published

    Radverkehrsförderung 3.0: Barrierefrei, netztransparent, digital - Teil 2; Radverkehr, Verkehrsmittelwahl, Stadtverkehr, Verkehrsplanung

    Pez, P. & Seidel, A., 2020, In: Internationales Verkehrswesen. 72, 4, p. 16-20 5 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. Published
  4. 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 Verlag, 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

  5. Published

    Einzelhandel und Stadtverkehr – eine Symbiose?

    Pez, P. & Neiberger, C., 2019, Einzelhandel und Stadtverkehr: Neue Entwicklungstendenzen durch Digitalisierung und Stadtgestaltung. Neiberger, C. & Pez, P. (eds.). Würzburg University Press, Vol. 28. p. 1-4 4 p. (Geographische Handelsforschung; vol. 28).

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

  6. Published

    Verkehrsplanung

    Pez, P., 2020, Geographische Handelsforschung. Neiberger, C. (ed.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Spektrum, p. 157-167 11 p. 14

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

  7. Published

    Einzelhandel und Stadtverkehr: Neue Entwicklungstendenzen durch Digitalisierung und Stadtgestaltung

    Pez, P. (Editor) & Neiberger, C. (Editor), 2019, Würzburg University Press. 168 p. (Geographische Handelsforschung; vol. 28)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  8. Published

    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

  9. Published

    Mapping Urban Information as an Interdisciplinary Method for Geography, Art and Architecture Representations

    Kirschner, U. & Sperling, D., 2018, Computing for a better tomorrow: Proceedings of the 36th eCAADe Conference - Volume 2 . Kepczynska-Walczak, A. & Bialkowski, S. (eds.). Lodz: Lodz University, p. 215-224 10 p. (Proceedings of the International Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe; vol. 2).

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

  10. Published

    Urban Transdisciplinary Co-study in a Cooperative Multicultural Working Project

    Kirschner, U., 2018, Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering: 15th International Conference, CDVE 2018, Hangzhou, China, October 21–24, 2018, Proceedings. Luo, Y. (ed.). Cham: Springer Verlag, p. 145-152 8 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 11151 LNCS).

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

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