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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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/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research
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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 anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
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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/works › Articles for encyclopedia › Research
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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/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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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/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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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 anthologies › Monographs › Research
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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/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research
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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 contributions › Journal articles › Research
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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/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research
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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/works › Articles for encyclopedia › Research