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

    Zur Verräumlichung von Öffentlichkeit

    Wöhler, K., 2000, Öffentlichkeit im Wandel: Neue Beiträge zur Begriffsklärung. Faulstich, W. & Hickethier, K. (eds.). Wissenschaftler-Verlag, p. 48-62 15 p. (IfAM-Arbeitsberichte ; vol. 18).

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

  2. Published

    15 Jahre Freie Lauenburgische Akademie: Festschrift für Dr. Werner Budesheim

    Pries, M. (Editor), 2007, Freie Lauenburgische Akademie für Wissenschaft und Kultur. 271 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  3. Published

    Garnisionsstädte und Konversionsfolgen

    Pez, P. & Sachs, K., 2002, Nationalatlas Bundesrepublik Deutschland: Bd. 5: Dörfer und Städte. Friedrich, K., Hahn, B., Popp, H. & Mayr, A. (eds.). Heidelberg [u.a.]: Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, p. 104-105 2 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticles for encyclopediaResearch

  4. Published

    Poetic water images in architecture

    Kirschner, U., 2006, Eco-architecture: Harmonisation between Architecture and Nature. Broadbent , G. & Brebbia, C. A. (eds.). WIT Press, p. 143-152 10 p. (WIT Transactions on the Built Environment; vol. 86).

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

  5. 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.

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

  6. Published

    Lernende Tourismusregionen: Vernetzung als strategischer Erfolgsfaktor kleiner und mittlerer Unternehmen

    Saretzki, A., Wilken, M. & Wöhler, K., 2002, Münster/Hamburg/London: LIT Verlag. 178 p. (Tourismus. Beiträge zu Wissenschaft und Praxis; vol. 3)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearch

  7. Published

    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

  8. Published

    Die Chelsea Piers in New York: neues Leben in alter Hülle

    Pries, M., 2000, In: Industrie-Kultur. 1, p. 14-15 2 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  9. 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).

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

  10. Published

    Tourismuswissenschaft

    Wöhler, K., 2008, Lexikon Tourismus: Destinationen, Gastronomie, Hotellerie, Reisemittler, Reiseveranstalter, Verkehrsträger. Fuchs, W., Mundt, J. W. & Zollondz, H.-D. (eds.). München: Oldenbourg Schulbuchverl, p. 708-712 5 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticles for encyclopediaResearch

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