OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Space and Culture is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Politics of Mapping Religion: Locating, Counting, and Categorizing Places of Worship in European Cities	20
Listening Beyond the Human: The Autonomous Recording Unit and the Ethics of Sound in Biodiversity Conservation	17
Space, Place, and Countervisuality in Montgomery: A Rhetorical Analysis of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice	11
Mapping the Interior: The Consolidation of an Idea Across Disciplines, Movements, and Geographical Regions in the Early-to-Mid 20th Century	11
Interstices of Dis/abling Experiences in Times of Crises	10
Two Fire Temples and a Metro: Contesting Infrastructures in Mumbai	10
Becoming One with the Neighborhood: Collaborative Art, Space-Making, and Urban Change in Izmir Darağaç	9
Making Neighbor Relations Through Materialities and Senses	8
From Train Station to Night Market: Bangkok’s Talad Rod Fai as Urban Liminoid Space	8
Extensions: The Embodiment, Spatiality, Materiality, and Sociality of Neighboring in Danish Public Housing	7
Churches and Urban Regeneration in Postindustrial Amsterdam	7
Inside the Paris Zone: Entering the French Leftspace	7
Political Misuse of Hagia Sophia as the Lost Object of the Istanbul Conquest	7
İstanbul Street Rhythms: A Field Guide to Short Expressive Ensembles	7
Publication Note	7
Elastic Neighboring: Everyday Life Within the Geometry and Materiality of Large Housing Estates	7
“Keep Your Wheels Off the Furniture”: The Marginalization of Street Skateboarding in the City of Melbourne’s “Skate Melbourne Plan”	6
No Longer a Prison: The Logistics and Politics of Transforming a Prison as Work of Architecture	5
Winter’s Topography, Law, and the Colonial Legal Imaginary in British Columbia	5
St. Petersburg as a Place of Belonging: Sticker Artists Inhabit and Imagine the City	4
The Constitution of Dubai’s Mobile-App-Mediated Spatiotemporal Glocalization: Postphenomenology and Postdigitality in Dialogue	4
Bodies under Pressure: Experiencing Waiting Time in Basic Health Care Facilities (Morocco)	4
Censorship Through Explanation: The Corrective Agency of Visibility in Panoramic Perspective and the Panopticon Prison Plan	4
Experimentation Within the Urban Ecosystem: The Case for Cross-Sector Support	4
From the Tag to the #Hashtag: Street Art, Instagram, and Gentrification	4

Parkour, Graffiti, and the Politics of (In)Visibility in Aestheticized Cityscapes	4
Disability and Spatial Exclusion Under COVID-19 in South Africa	3
Memory, Place, and Mobility: Kinchela Boys Home Aboriginal Corporation’s Mobile Education Centre as a Site of Conscience	3
Spatializing Nationalism and Religion: The Production of Sinhala-Buddhist Imagination and the Centrality of Anuradhapura	3
Picturing Palestine From Jordan: Contesting “Sykes-Picot Borders” Through Photography	3
Memories of State Terrorism in Chile: Dark Ruins at Villa Grimaldi	3
The Song of Food	3
Social Infrastructures in Times of Corona: Exploring the Ambiguities of Sociality, Practices, and Materiality	3
Public Perception Influence on the Reshaping Urban Heritage: A Case Study of Port Said Historic Quarters	3
Taking Play Seriously in Urban Design: The Evolution of Barcelona’s Superblocks	3
Tensions and Escapes in Independent Living Infrastructures for People With Disabilities Under COVID-19	3
The March as a Safe Space and Dynamics of Resocialization	3
Why Architecture?	3
Who Has the Right to the Coworking Space? Reframing Platformed Workspaces as Elite Territory in the Geomedia City	2
Gentrification and the Right to the Geomedia City	2
The Chronicity of Home-Making: Women Caregivers in Dis/Abling Spaces	2
(Lived) Spaces of Belonging, Culture, and Gender: Spatial Practices of Home for Syrian Women in Istanbul	2
The Vagaries of Sonic Neighborly Life: Privacy at Home and Sound Politics in Post-Socialist Mass Housing	2
Dissolving Ableism: Could Disabled People Flourish During the First Aotearoa New Zealand COVID-19 Lockdown?	2
Rights and Stones: Pentecostal Autoconstruction and Citizenship in Rio de Janeiro	2
Sites of Violence, Sites of Peace, Sites of Justice: Transforming the Relational Landscape of Yogyakarta	2
The Blacktown Native Institution as a Living, Embodied Being: Decolonizing Australian First Nations Zones of Trauma Through Creativity	2
Short and Locked Down: The Impact of COVID-19 on a Person With Dwarfism	2
Erasing the Pink on the World Atlas: Re-Mapping African American Literature	2
COVID-19 as a Crisis of Confinement: What We Can Learn From the Lived Experiences of People With Intellectual Disabilities in Care Institutions	2
The Geomediatized Geographies of Marginalized Older Digital Citizens	2
Rite and Stone: Religious Belonging and Urban Space in Global Perspective	2
Tactical Chor(e)ographies: Tactics of Inhibition as a Threat to Public Space in Limassol’s Seafront	2
Playing in the “Third Place”: How Games and Play Are Transforming Public Libraries	2
Taking and Making Place Through Sound: From the Phonotope to the Phonocene	2
Epilogue: Spatializing Cities, Exploring Urban Religion, Re-Imagining Urbanity	2
Haʻu ka Waha i ka Nahele: Dissonance and Song in Kanaka Sites of Counter-Memory	2
Role and Meaning of Public Space: Findings From the Margins of Milan	2
University Spaces as Sites of Conscience	1
Promises of Urbanism: New Songdo City and the Power of Infrastructure	1
Postcards	1
Measures of Restraint: The Remaking of Carceral Space in the Postwar United States	1
Secularity and Urban Gentrification: A Spatial Analysis of Downtown Buddhist Temples in Shanghai	1
The Persistence of the Victorian Prison: Alteration, Inhabitation, Obsolescence, and Affirmative Design	1
Vihara: The Making of Social Space for the Chinese and Malay Communities in Pekan Labuhan	1
Spaced Apart: Autoethnographies of Access Throughout the COVID 19 Pandemic	1
The Bottom-up Place Branding of a Neighborhood: Analyzing a Case of Selective Empowerment	1
Place Diagnosis Before Transformation: Case of Fener-Balat	1
Exhausting the Home Interior: A Perecquian Methodology for the Study of Temporary Homemaking	1
The Rotting City: Surrealist Arts of Noticing the Urban Anthropocene	1
Space for Play: A History of Hong Kong Playgrounds	1
Introduction to the Special Issue: Cities as Playgrounds/Playgrounds as Cities: Rethinking Urban Play, Civic Engagement, and Socio-spatiality	1
What Does It Mean to Be a Site of Conscience? “Good Trouble” Across the Globe	1
Delinquent Girls as Activists: Insider Activism and Carceral Welfare	1
Keepers of the Grave: Ritual Guides, Ghosts, and Hidden Narratives in Indonesian History	1

Memory, Imagination, and Resistance in Canada’s Prison for Women	1
Between Taking and Making Place: Exploring the Linkages Between Serres’ Le Parasite and the Research Practice of Creative Intervention	1
Obituary: Orlando Cordia Hall (Shakib Wali) 1971-2020	1
Urban Game Dynamics: How Game Designers, Curators, and Players Create New Possibilities	1
Staying in Crisis: Choice or Coercion a Review of the Reasons of Rural-to-Urban Migrations Due to Environmental Changes in Iranian Villages	1
The Representation and Agency of Artistic Interventions in Community in Mainland China	1
Sounding Epistemologies: Placemaking Through Sound	1
Infrastructuring Religion: Materiality and Meaning in Ordinary Urbanism	1
Reworlding: Urban Play as Method for Exploring Alternate Social Imaginaries	1
Vulnerability and Resilience Embedded in Discourses: Literature, Media, and Actors’ Cultural Knowledge in German and Polish River Regions	1
Cultivating the Symbolic Capital of Singularity: The Vineyard, From Space to Place	1
#Detroit Music City: Analyzing Detroit’s Musical Urban Imaginary Through a Cultural Justice Lens	1